John Beverley

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Jason Turner's Factualism

Appearances to the contrary the world consists ultimately of facts, not of things. According to Factualism, familiar objects and properties of experience are mere abstractions from this single ontological category. Jason Turner’s recent defense of a version of this thesis in The Facts in Logical Space: A Tractarian Ontology, is precise, exhaustive, and persuasive. Those working on facts will find much of interest, as will those working at the intersection of formal logic and metaphysics...

...and those wanting to hear what I think of Turner's book an check out my review (in draft form) here before release.