Ontological Nihilism

Oxford Studies in Metaphysics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Turner, Jason ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ontological innocence; Ontological nihilism; Ontology; Paraphrase; Predicate functor language

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863195994     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199603039.003.0001     Document Type: Chapter

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