The Fragmentation of Being
accommodate the notion of naturalness. The important thing is to account for the distinguished structure of the world. (This wil ...
Ontological realism is abhorrent to Heidegger. Not because all quantificational expressions are metaphysically on a par: the tru ...
Although“is grue”and“is bleen”are intelligible, they are highly unnatural, whereas “is green”and“is blue”are in far better shape ...
Aristotle’s argument for the conclusion thatbeingis not a genus seems to presuppose that there is a general concept of being, si ...
Here is a speech that the deflationalist might make: what the nihilist means by“there is”is determined by how the nihilist uses“ ...
Keep in mind that, according to the friend of quantifier variance, there are many equally fundamental meanings for theunrestrict ...
1.5 Ways of Believing in Ways of Being Let’s now abstract away from the particulars of Heidegger’s theory in order to discern so ...
only if we use the quantifier itself in the description. For example,“some”is a relation that obtains between F and G just in ca ...
quantifier. But since there is no unrestricted quantifier, it is hard to say that some semantically primitive restricted quantif ...
On this view, one thing can enjoy two ways of being. Another possibility is to hold that there are four modes of being, none of ...
over not only the existent and the subsistent but many other things as well (including things such that it is impossible that th ...
Meinong thought. (Perhaps it is merely a quirk of our language or a consequence of ourfinite cognitive abilities that we have la ...
plural and primitive singular quantifiers appear in the metaphysically ideal language. If the metaphysically ideal language has ...
are some things such that all tables and chairs are among those things.”Cases involving predications of relations are much trick ...
all and only some things, there is a natural semantically primitive restricted quantifier that ranges over all and only those th ...
existence? There is an argument, inspired by remarks by Peter Geach (1969) and Anthony Kenny (2005a), for the conclusion that we ...
The same is true of whatever is the semantic content of quantificational phrases. Set aside considerations having to do with div ...
of individual existence since that will make the exposition a bit easier, but all of what I say can be recaptured in terms of sp ...
and it is true thatR(∃ 2 xΨ).“∃ 1 ”and“∃ 2 ”figure in statements that are true in reality, whereas“∃”does not. Perhaps other, mo ...
different ways of formulating versions of ontological pluralism. Although I defended ontological pluralism from some objections, ...
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