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Limitations of Power

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Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies
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Bird (Bristol) warns against overextending the case for a powers ontology, arguing that it cannot answer typical questions outside fundamental metaphysics, for example concerning the analysis of causal statements.

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Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies
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Alexander Bird
Keywords
philosophy
metaphysics
ontology
ancient philosophy
Department: Faculty of Philosophy
Date Added: 15/02/2012
Duration: 00:59:09

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