Ontological Reduction.

Harold Hodes; Reinhardt Grossman

doi:10.2307/2184127

William of Ockham and Lorenzo Valla: False Friends. Semantics and Ontological Reduction

Renaissance Quarterly ◽

10.2307/1261609 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 56 (3) ◽

pp. 613-651 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Lodi Nauta

Keyword(s):

Cultural Background ◽

William Of Ockham ◽

Ontological Reduction ◽

Abstract Entities ◽

The World

AbstractAt first glance, Lorenzo Valla has much in common with William of Ockham. Both see language as the key to an understanding of the world, criticizing realist ontologies which admit of various abstract entities. Modern scholars have therefore often argued that Valla's transformation of medieval metaphysics and logic is nominalist in spirit and continues Ockhamist nominalism. The article criticizes this widely held interpretation. At closer inspection, Valla's views on ontology and semantics are very different from Ockham's. Apart from the obvious differences in cultural background, they show widely different approaches, methods, and arguments at a more philosophical level.

Unifying Experience and Anthropology—The Ontological Reduction

Eschatological Hermeneutics ◽

10.5040/9780567682338.0009 ◽

2018 ◽

Keyword(s):

Ontological Reduction

Ontological Reduction and the Wave Function Ontology*

The Wave Function ◽

10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199790807.003.0008 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 168-183 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Alyssa Ney

Keyword(s):

Wave Function ◽

Ontological Reduction

Ontological reduction

Axiomatic Theories of Truth ◽

10.1017/cbo9780511921049.025 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 330-332

Author(s):

Volker Halbach

Keyword(s):

Ontological Reduction

Truthmaking, Supervenience, and Reduction

Grazer Philosophische Studien ◽

10.1163/18756735-000055 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 95 (4) ◽

pp. 520-540

Author(s):

Mohsen Zamani

Keyword(s):

Ontological Commitment ◽

Reduction Theory ◽

Plausible Account ◽

Ontological Reduction ◽

Composite Objects ◽

Commitment Theory

There are two main theories of ontological commitment: the quantifier view, and the truthmaker view. Since there are some truths that apparently commit us to certain entities, but actually do not, any ontological commitment theory must also contain an ontological reduction theory. Advocates of the quantifier view propose the paraphrasing method of reduction, while some advocates of the truthmaker view propose the supervenience method. In this paper, after a brief discussion of the quantifier view, the author proposes a modified version of truthmaker-based ontology, and shows that a plausible account of the supervenience method can be deduced from his version. He then shows that the supervenience method could explain why the paraphrasing method is successful. The author also argues that according to the truthmaker view we must accept composite objects as something over and above the particles which constitute them.

Ontological reduction and molecular structure

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics ◽

10.1016/j.shpsb.2010.03.005 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 41 (2) ◽

pp. 183-191 ◽

Cited By ~ 39

Author(s):

Robin Findlay Hendry

Keyword(s):

Molecular Structure ◽

Ontological Reduction

Quine and Whitehead on Ontological Reduction

Process Studies ◽

10.5840/process201241233 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 41 (2) ◽

pp. 261-286 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Christine Holmgren ◽

Leemon McHenry ◽

Keyword(s):

Ontological Reduction

On the Microfoundations of Macroeconomics

The Oxford Handbook of Post-Keynesian Economics, Volume 2 ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195390759.013.0001 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 44-61 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Abu Rizvi

Keyword(s):

General Equilibrium ◽

Economic Activity ◽

Aggregate Demand ◽

Classical Approach ◽

Asset Accumulation ◽

John Maynard Keynes ◽

Ontological Reduction ◽

Hyman Minsky

In a review of Asset Accumulation and Economic Activity by James Tobin, Hyman Minsky outlined three types of macroeconomic approaches after John Maynard Keynes: the neoclassical synthesis, the New Classical approach, and fundamentalist Keynesian scholarship. Each of the three streams of thought identified by Minsky had trouble finding acceptance. Regarding the fundamentalist Keynesians, Minsky’s third group, this chapter suggests why mainstream economists tended to ignore them, attributing this neglect to a form of dogmatism. The bulk of this chapter, though, focuses on criticism leveled against the two other approaches quite directly, namely, that they had inadequate microfoundations. Unless otherwise stated, the microfoundations referred to in this chapter concern the aggregate manifestations of the general equilibrium (of the Arrow-Debreu type) of maximizing individual agents. Also discussed are the arbitrariness of aggregate demand and its implications, the Sonnenschein-Mantel-Debreu theory, and ontological reduction and explanatory reduction.

Ontological Reduction.

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research ◽

10.2307/2106761 ◽

1975 ◽

Vol 35 (4) ◽

pp. 582

Author(s):

Eric B. Dayton ◽

Reinhardt Grossmann

Keyword(s):

Ontological Reduction

Ontological Reduction.

The Philosophical Quarterly ◽

10.2307/2218990 ◽

1975 ◽

Vol 25 (101) ◽

pp. 373

Author(s):

J. R. Cameron ◽

Reinhardt Grossmann

Keyword(s):

Ontological Reduction