Necessary Beings An Essay on Ontology, Modality, and the Relations Between Them
Necessary Beings An Essay on Ontology, Modality, and the Relations Between Them
- ISBN 13:
9780199669578
- ISBN 10:
0199669570
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 12/15/2013
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
Hale defends a broadly Fregean approach to metaphysics, according to which ontological distinctions among different kinds of things (objects, properties, and relations) are to be drawn on the basis of prior distinctions between different logical types of expression. The claim that facts about what kinds of things exist depend upon facts about what is possible makes little sense unless one accepts that at least some modal facts are fundamental, and not reducible to facts of some other, non-modal, sort. He argues that facts about what is absolutely necessary or possible have this character, and that they have their source or basis, not in meanings or concepts nor in facts about alternative 'worlds', but in the natures or essences of things.