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Material Beings: The Crucial Balance, Second Edition, Revised

By Van Inwagen, Peter
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Authors: Van Inwagen, Peter
Format: Paperback
GTIN13: 9780801483066
ISBN10: 0801483069
Page Count: 288
Dimensions: 5.98x0.72x8.96
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Jacket Notes: The topic of this book is material objects. Like most interesting concepts, the concept of a material object is one without precise boundaries. A thing is a material object if it occupies space and endures through time and can move about in space (literally move about, unlike a shadow or a wave or a reflection) and has a surface, and has a mass and is made of a certain stuff or stuffs.

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According to Peter van Inwagen, visible inanimate objects do not, strictly speaking, exist. In defending this controversial thesis, he offers fresh insights on such topics as personal identity, commonsense belief, existence over time, the phenomenon of vagueness, and the relation between metaphysics and ordinary language.

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