The Fragmentation of Being
the following line of reasoning, which is both different from Ross’s and by my lights somewhat more compelling.^21 What defines ...
answers to them are highly complex. I have done my best to show this, at least with respect to the question of whether being fra ...
intuitions of various thinkers long dead are cited as evidence in favor of various positions defended in this book, it is of par ...
intuitions relevant to the issue at hand when assessing a given theory. The history of philosophy as well as comparative contemp ...
1. Ways of Being 1.1 Introduction This chapter willfirst be devoted to developing a meta-ontological theory based on the work of ...
on his answers to (broadly construed) semantical and metaphysical questions con- cerning expressions like“being,”“existence,”and ...
1.2 Senses of“Being,”Ways of Being Heidegger is famous for raising anew the question of the meaning of“being.”Heidegger (1962: 3 ...
The question asks about being. What does being mean? Formally, the answer is Being means this and that. The question seeks an an ...
or such utterances are semantically defective. (Well, this isn’t quite right—for it might be that eating Phil Bricker will contr ...
distinguishes several other ways in which the meaning of phrases might be unified by analogy, and in the next chapter we will br ...
ultimately I am indifferent whether“part”is polysemous. What matters is that there is a generic sense of“part”which is in play ( ...
There is a multiplicity of modi existendi, and each of these is a mode belonging to a being with a specific content, a definite ...
Heidegger (1988: 18) wants to know what unifies the general concept of being: How can we speak at all of a unitary concept of be ...
Heidegger commits what Gareth Matthews (1972) has calledthe Sense-Kind Confu- sion. Consider the following pair of sentences: (S ...
filled with money, there would be no problem with asserting (S3). But, if this were the case, (S4) would be false.) For Heidegge ...
at least onexsuch that... ,”for each numbern, there is a generic sense of“there are exactlynxs such that... .”^25 But now one mi ...
and that other entities lack, and so are not most perspicuously represented by predicates.^29 The generic sense of“being”is repr ...
life), not the other way around. Recall that Heidegger holds that an adequate account of the generic sense of“being”will explain ...
The difficulty in seeing what the proper definition of“being”is given that“being” is“unified by analogy”is what motivates the ph ...
Given that both sides can in some way recognize the senses of“being”postulated, is there anything here worth worrying about? The ...
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