Philosophy 1020 Study Guide - Final Guide: Natural Kind, Reproductive Rights, Physicalism

• School: Western University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: Philosophy 1020
• Professor: Dennis Klimchuk

Document Summary

Study of the ultimate nature of reality. What are things: goodman and musical ontology. He considers the subject of music and musical ontology. Goodman says that it is not a material or physical thing (the piece itself)- it is an abstract idea. Since music is allographic, and therefore is tied to a set of instructions like a score, we may think that music is then allographic. Also, the score can be destroyed but not the music- therefore music does not seem to be a material thing: platonism and plato- theory of forms: what kinds of things are in the. Platonism- knowledge as conceptually prior to the senses. Forms are abstract and unchanging, and transcend time and space . They are also more perfect than anything we experience in the physical realm of the world. Metaphysical claims: there are abstract entities, and there are universals or forms.