The Metaphysics of Quantities

Oxford: Oxford University Press (2020)
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What are physical quantities, and in particular, what makes them quantitative? This book presents an original answer to this question through the novel position of substantival structuralism, arguing that quantitativeness is an irreducible feature of attributes, and quantitative attributes are best understood as substantival structured spaces.

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BD111.W556 2020

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9780198837084   0198837089   9780191895883
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J.E. Wolff
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