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Empty Names, Fiction, and the Puzzles of Non-Existence
- Anthony J Everett, Thomas Hofweber
- Philosophy
- 2000
Empty Names, Fiction and the Puzzle of Non-Existence contains 13 important new papers concerning the semantic and metaphysical issues arising from empty names, existence, and the nature of fiction.… Expand
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Number Determiners, Numbers, and Arithmetic
- Thomas Hofweber
- Philosophy
- 1 April 2005
and both of these statements seem to be identity statements, ones with which we claim that what two singular terms stand for is identical. But that number words can occur both as singular terms and… Expand
Inexpressible Properties and Propositions
- Thomas Hofweber
- Philosophy
- 2003
Inexpressible properties and propositions play an important role in various metaphysical debates, in particular in the attempt to refute views that closely relate properties to predicates, and… Expand
The Meta‐Problem of Change
- Thomas Hofweber
- Philosophy
- 1 June 2009
One of the central problems in metaphysics over the last so many centuries has been the problem of change. It plays an important role in a variety of large scale metaphysical debates, in particular… Expand
Proof-Theoretic Reduction As A Philosopher's Tool
- Thomas Hofweber
- Philosophy
- 5 March 2000
1. PROOF-THEORETIC REDUCTION AND HILBERT ’ S PROGRAM Hilbert’s program in the philosophy of mathematics comes in two parts. One part is a technical part. To carry out this part of the program one has… Expand
HOW TO ENDURE
- Thomas Hofweber, J. Velleman
- Sociology
- 2011
The terms ‘endurance’ and ‘perdurance’ are commonly thought to denote distinct ways for an object to persist, but it is surprisingly hard to say what these are. The common approach, defining them in… Expand
A Puzzle about Ontology
- Thomas Hofweber
- Philosophy
- 1 June 2005
Ontology is the philosophical discipline that tries to find out what there is: what entities make up reality, what is the stuff the world is made from? Thus, ontology is part of metaphysics, and in… Expand