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The Need for Ontology: Some Choices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

C. B. Martin
C. B. Martin
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University of Calgary
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The aim of this paper is to set out some of the ontologies amongst which some forms of anti-realism must select. This provides the appropriate setting for presenting an alternative realist ontology. The argument is that the choice between the varieties of anti-realism and realism is inevitably a choice between ontologies.

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Philosophy , Volume 68 , Issue 266 , October 1993, pp. 505 - 522
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1993

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