“Things in Themselves”
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“Things in Themselves” is a philosophical work by Kit Fine that develops a distinctive metaphysical account of reality and objects as they are independently of our representations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| “Things in Themselves” canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11850449 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: “Things in Themselves” Context triple: [Kit Fine, hasWritten, “Things in Themselves”]
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A.
“On What There Is”
“On What There Is” is a seminal philosophical essay by W.V.O. Quine that challenges traditional notions of ontology and argues for a criterion of ontological commitment based on the quantificational structure of our best scientific theories.
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B.
The Way Things Are
"The Way Things Are" is a track from Fiona Apple's album *When the Pawn...*, showcasing her introspective lyrics and distinctive piano-driven alternative style.
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C.
“Truth and Meaning”
“Truth and Meaning” is a seminal philosophical essay by Michael Dummett that develops a theory of meaning grounded in the conditions for a sentence’s truth.
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D.
“Of Experience”
“Of Experience” is the final and one of the most reflective essays in Michel de Montaigne’s *Essays*, in which he meditates on the limits of human knowledge and the primacy of lived, personal experience.
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E.
Reflections on Things at Hand
Reflections on Things at Hand is a classic Neo-Confucian anthology of philosophical writings and commentaries, traditionally attributed to Zhu Xi and his collaborators, that systematizes moral and metaphysical teachings for scholarly self-cultivation.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: “Things in Themselves” Target entity description: “Things in Themselves” is a philosophical work by Kit Fine that develops a distinctive metaphysical account of reality and objects as they are independently of our representations.
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A.
“On What There Is”
“On What There Is” is a seminal philosophical essay by W.V.O. Quine that challenges traditional notions of ontology and argues for a criterion of ontological commitment based on the quantificational structure of our best scientific theories.
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B.
The Way Things Are
"The Way Things Are" is a track from Fiona Apple's album *When the Pawn...*, showcasing her introspective lyrics and distinctive piano-driven alternative style.
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C.
“Truth and Meaning”
“Truth and Meaning” is a seminal philosophical essay by Michael Dummett that develops a theory of meaning grounded in the conditions for a sentence’s truth.
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D.
“Of Experience”
“Of Experience” is the final and one of the most reflective essays in Michel de Montaigne’s *Essays*, in which he meditates on the limits of human knowledge and the primacy of lived, personal experience.
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E.
Reflections on Things at Hand
Reflections on Things at Hand is a classic Neo-Confucian anthology of philosophical writings and commentaries, traditionally attributed to Zhu Xi and his collaborators, that systematizes moral and metaphysical teachings for scholarly self-cultivation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
metaphysics book
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non-fiction book ⓘ person ⓘ philosopher ⓘ philosophical book ⓘ |
| arguesAgainst |
purely representational accounts of reality
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reductive physicalism ⓘ |
| author | Kit Fine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| developsTheoryOf |
essence
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grounding ⓘ metaphysical dependence ⓘ objects as they are independently of our representations ⓘ ontological categories ⓘ reality as it is in itself ⓘ |
| hasKeyConcept |
essence and modality
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fine-grained metaphysical structure ⓘ ground and grounding relations ⓘ independence from representation ⓘ metaphysical realism ⓘ non-reductive ontology ⓘ things as they are in themselves ⓘ |
| hasNotableFeature |
distinction between representation and reality
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focus on objects and their natures ⓘ systematic account of reality independent of thought ⓘ technical metaphysical framework ⓘ |
| hasPhilosophicalApproach | analytic philosophy ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Aristotle
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Immanuel Kant ⓘ analytic metaphysics ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainField |
metaphysics
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philosophy of language ⓘ |
| mainTopic |
independence from thought and language
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metaphysical structure of reality ⓘ metaphysics ⓘ nature of objects ⓘ ontology ⓘ reality independent of representation ⓘ things in themselves ⓘ |
| notableWork | Things in Themselves NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition | contemporary analytic metaphysics ⓘ |
| workOf | Kit Fine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: “Things in Themselves” Description of subject: “Things in Themselves” is a philosophical work by Kit Fine that develops a distinctive metaphysical account of reality and objects as they are independently of our representations.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.