A World of States of Affairs

In this important study D. M. Armstrong offers a comprehensive system of analytical metaphysics that synthesizes but also develops his thinking over the past twenty years. Armstrong''s analysis which acknowledges the logical atomism of Russell and Wittgenstein makes facts (or states of affairs as the author calls them) the fundamental constituents of the world examining properties relations numbers classes possibility and necessity dispositions causes and laws. It will appeal to a wide readership in analytical philosophy.