The Facts in Logical Space: A Tractarian Ontology
Jason Turner
Abstract
This book develops and defends in detail a factalist ontological picture, according to which reality’s ultimate constituents are structureless atomic facts. The existence (or appearances as) of non-facts are ultimately grounded in a system of quasi-geometric relations that the facts participate in. Axioms for this quasi-geometric system are given, and a representation theorem is proven. It establishes that if the facts satisfy the axioms, then they have a unique (up to isomorphism) ‘object-and-property’ representation: each fact can be thought of as though it were made up of individuals and pr ... More
Keywords: Facts, states-of-affairs, ontology, modality, factalism
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 | Print ISBN-13: 9780199682812 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: April 2016 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199682812.001.0001 |
