Ontological Investigations : An Inquiry into the Categories of Nature, Man and Soceity.
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- Foreword to the second edition -- Preface -- 1. Ontology -- 2. Irreductive Materialism -- 3. States of Affairs and Qualities -- 4. Exclusive and Inclusive Qualities -- 5. Actions and Functions -- 6. Patterns, Changes, and Pure Gestalten -- 7. Self-Sustaining Gestalten and Gestalten Causa Sui -- 8. External, Internal, and Grounded Relations -- 9. Existential Dependence -- 10. Container Space and Relational Space -- 11. Tendency -- 12. Efficient Causality -- 13. Intentionality -- 14. Nature: Parts and Wholes Without Intentionality -- 15. Man and Society: Nested Intentionality -- 16. Epistemological Positions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Appendix 1: An aphoristic summary of Ontological Investigations -- Appendix 2: Determinables as Universals -- Appendix 3: Ontologies and Concepts. Two Proposals.