The Fragmentation of Being
4.5 Restricting Recombination I’ll now explore how someone could use the meta-ontology defended here to articulate and justify r ...
there are several senses of“there is,”“exists,”“being,”etc. in ordinary English.^46 It is perfectly proper, on Ryle’s view, to s ...
eoccupiessand (ii) there is no meaningful sentence that contains that predicate in which an expression not co-categorial witheoc ...
metaphysically perfect language might well be right. I appealed to the notion of a natural expression when formulating the doctr ...
Let us pretend that the only fundamental predicates of individuals are shape predicates, e.g.,“is a triangle,”“is a square,”and ...
members to be formed. The logical form of the membership predicate in English does not match the logical form of the membership ...
towards the greater goal of providing necessary and sufficient conditions for meta- physical possibility. One tempting move is t ...
The tempting thought is that a necessary condition for an English sentence to be metaphysically possible is either for it to hav ...
applicable to objects of any ontological category that entities enjoysimply in virtueof being entities. Formal logic studies tho ...
respect to every subject matter; this is one sense in which the features to which they pertain are topic-neutral. Because these ...
4.7 The Necessity of Ontological Categories Let’s close this chapter with a brief discussion of whether what ontological categor ...
sufficient condition for a disjunctive property to exist is that at least one of its disjuncts exists, and this might not even b ...
5. Being and Almost Nothingness 5.1 Introduction We appear to be ontologically committed to what I will callalmost nothings. Exa ...
nothings generate for ontological monists:“It feels paradoxical to say that absences exist—but no better to say that absences do ...
almost nothings is something I will callbeing-by-courtesy, which we shall see is a truly degenerate way to be. In section 5.5, I ...
Second, the existence and qualitative nature of almost nothings is completely deter- mined by the existence and qualitative natu ...
depend in some way on substances. In this section, I assess whether almost nothings enjoy being-in as their mode of existence. W ...
entities belong to the same ontological category if and only if they exist in the same way, i.e., share the same mode of being. ...
(their hosts) but also to their modifications, such as their surfaces or other attributes of the host. The mode of being had by ...
restricted quantifiers aremorenatural than the unrestricted quantifier. The view that will be articulated in this section will p ...
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