| #1097669 in Books | Thomasson Amie L | 2010-11-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 5.50 x.80 x8.50l,.72 | File type: PDF | 256 pages | Ordinary Objects||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| An Extraordinary Ordinary Object|By Silenus|This book offers a fresh argument for metaphysical deflationism, the position that many metaphysical questions (about existence, identity, and persisitence) are either unanswerable, or easily answerable (a position Thomasson elsewhere hawks as 'Easy Ontology').
Thomasson frames her deflationary view around arguments against
Arguments that ordinary inanimate objects such as tables and chairs, sticks and stones, simply do not exist have become increasingly common and increasingly prominent. Some are based on demands for parsimony or for a non-arbitrary answer to the special composition question; others arise from prohibitions against causal redundancy, ontological vagueness, or co-location; and others still come from worries that a common sense ontology would be a rival to a scientific one. You easily download any file type for your device.Ordinary Objects | Amie Thomasson.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
