Publisher's Synopsis
In order to vindicate our Causal and inductive beliefs, the author requires the rejection of even more primary metaphysical and logical principles: existence in metaphysics and membership in class - logic. The former is shown to be an instance of the latter, and this lies behind many of the paradoxes with which logic and metaphysics are plagued: The Liar, the classical paradox of induction, to name only two. The reality of things has to be reconceived as dependent on their nature, not existence. Striking, intriguing, a rare exercise in philosophical imagination.
