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Knowledge, Cause, and Abstract Objects: Causal Objections to Platonism - The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science C. Cheyne 2001 edition
Knowledge, Cause, and Abstract Objects: Causal Objections to Platonism - The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science
C. Cheyne
According to platonists, entities such as numbers, sets, propositions and properties are abstract objects. But abstract objects lack causal powers and a location in space and time, so how could we ever come to know of the existence of such impotent and remote objects?
240 pages, biography
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | October 31, 2001 |
| ISBN13 | 9781402000515 |
| Publishers | Springer-Verlag New York Inc. |
| Pages | 240 |
| Dimensions | 155 × 235 × 15 mm · 535 g |
| Language | English |