{"product_id":"metaphysics-sophistry-illusion-c-9780198868361","title":"Metaphysics, Sophistry, \u0026 Illusion C","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Balaguer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Academic\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Academic\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Metaphysics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMetaphysics, Sophistry, and Illusion\u003c\/em\u003e does two things. First, it introduces a novel kind of non-factualist view, and argues that we should endorse views of this kind in connection with a wide class of metaphysical questions, most notably, the abstract-object question and the composite-object question. (More specifically, Mark Balaguer argues that there's no fact of the matter whether there are any such things as abstract objects or composite objects--or material objects of any other kind.) Second, \u003cem\u003eMetaphysics, Sophistry, and Illusion\u003c\/em\u003e explains how these non-factualist views fit into a general anti-metaphysical view called neo-positivism, and explains how we could argue that neo-positivism is true. Neo-positivism is the view that every metaphysical question decomposes into some subquestions--call them Q1, Q2, Q3, etc.--such that, for each of these subquestions, one of the following three anti-metaphysical views is true of it: non-factualism, or scientism, or metaphysically innocent modal-truth-ism. These three views can be defined (very roughly) as follows: non-factualism about a question Q is the view that there's no fact of the matter about the answer to Q. Scientism about Q is the view that Q is an ordinary empirical-scientific question about some contingent aspect of physical reality, and Q can't be settled with an a priori philosophical argument. And metaphysically innocent modal-truth-ism about Q is the view that Q asks about the truth value of a modal sentence that's metaphysically innocent in the sense that it doesn't say anything about reality and, if it's true, isn't made true by reality\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46418082267287,"sku":"9780198868361","price":12530.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780198868361.webp?v=1769069838","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/metaphysics-sophistry-illusion-c-9780198868361","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}