Model: Book of Instruments

HAVING AND THINGNESS
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The first chapter of the Book of Instruments comprises the following seven divisions:

1. Having Component Parts, Attributes and Relations
   with 1. Having concrete and abstract things
   
   
2. The Choice of Ontological Instrument
   with 4. An instrumentalist attitude to ontology
   
   
3. The Attributive versus the Objectual View
   with 2. The characteristics of two different interpretations
   
   
4. Attributes as Ultimate Constituents
   with 3. Concrete and abstract
   
   
5. Wholes
   with 1. Their whole-, part- and pseudo-attributes
   
   
6. Persons
   with 2. The person as a pair of objects or object of a pair
   
   
7. Existence and Thingness
   with 4. The domain of a thing

This chapter is also available as part of MNI/BoI1-3.txt, a plain text file containing the first three chapters of the Book of Instruments. It can be accessed from MNI/BoI.htm.

The Model continues with the following chapter: Catenas of Attributes and Relations.