The Metaphysics of Quantities (9780198837084)

What are physical quantities, and in particular, what makes them quantitative?

This book articulates and defends an original answer to this important, insufficiently understood question through the novel position of substantival structuralism. This position argues that quantitativeness is an irreducible feature of attributes, and quantitative attributes are best understood as substantival structured spaces. The book first explores what it means for an attribute to be quantitative, and what metaphysical implications a commitment to quantitative attributes has. It
then sets the stage to address the metaphysical and ontological consequences of the existence of quantitative attributes.

Product details

• Format Hardback | 240 pages
• Dimensions 163 x 240 x 19mm | 514g
• Publication date 29 Jun 2020
• Publisher Oxford University Press
• Publication City/Country Oxford, United Kingdom
• Language English
• ISBN10 0198837089
• ISBN13 9780198837084
• Bestsellers rank 1,489,810

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