Amie Thomasson, "Rethinking Metaphysics" (Oxford UP, 2025)

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Nov 10, 202563:17Society & Culture

The word “metaphysics” conjures up thoughts of very hard questions about reality and deep, perhaps unresolvable, metaphysical mysteries. But is that the right way to think about the subject matter of metaphysics? Accordi...

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