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In Reality: Fundamental Topics in Metaphysics, Peter Loptson argues for a conception of metaphysics as the most general or comprehensive method of inquiry. Working from a broadly analytic and naturalist perspective, he confronts positions that claim metaphysics to be impossible, as advanced in ancient, Kantian, post-Kantian, and contemporary philosophy, showing them to be unsuccessful. He draws the topics of his selective investigation of metaphysics partly from the work of Kant, whom he conceives iconically as a primary guide to what metaphysical enquiry seeks to know. He provides accounts of basic categories of what is real and outlines major historical metaphysical systems. He then goes on to explore aspects of existence, essence, substance, universals, space, time, causality, mind, freedom, and other topics.
The first edition of Reality appeared in 2001 to great acclaim. For this new edition the author has augmented the work's original arguments and extensively enlarged its scope and engagement with current stances and debates.
"An important original contribution to metaphysics. "
-- Panayot Butchvarov, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
I've had this thing for almost 30 years. It came from a professor at Cornell University who also ran his own soils engineering business. I don't know when it was made, but surely no later than the mid 1940s from what little I know of the guy. In the soils lab at my place of work, we have electronic scales that weigh out to this degree of precision (0.01 gram) in a few seconds. With this balance, it's a long and rather tedious process to come up with the result, but hey, old machines are cool. Also, the method of operation here is not subject to variance within different parts of the working range, as is the case with electronic scales, so it's actually a better machine than modern scales, in that regard at least.
The weights are only handled with soft-surface forceps. Touching them with the fingers would soon change their mass enough to matter, via transfer of skin oils and dirt.
As a final note here, the balance has an over-built steel case finished with thick enamel paint, which was typical of such equipment back in those days. That, along with the decorative design are features that would be too expensive to include on anything built nowadays. And just look at the attention to detail that went into making the box for the weights!