Sketch for a Systematic Metaphysics

David Armstrong Sets Out His Metaphysical System In A Set Of Concise And Lively Chapters Each Dealing With One Aspect Of The World. He Begins With The Assumption That All That Exists Is The Physical World Of Space-time. On This Foundation He Constructs A Coherent Metaphysical Scheme That Gives Plausible Answers To Many Of The Great Problems Of Metaphysics. He Gives Accounts Of Properties, Relations, And Particulars; Laws Of Nature; Modality; Abstract Objects Such As Numbers; And Time And Mind.--book Jacket. Properties -- Relations -- States Of Affairs -- Laws Of Nature -- Reaching To Dispositionalism -- Particulars -- Truthmakers -- Possibility, Actuality, Necessity -- Limits -- Absences -- The Rational Disciplines : Logic And Mathematics -- Numbers -- Classes -- Time -- Mind. D.m. Armstrong. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [116]-120) And Index.