The Fragmentation of Being
only perfectly natural quantifier expressions are beings by courtesy quantified over. This gives us a different way of articulat ...
The naturalness of a meaning is also a matter of degree. Fit with use and naturalness are independent and often competing factor ...
“definition,”it follows that beings by courtesy are less real than concrete material beings.^16 They are also less real than att ...
something in reality can be called a being. In thefirst way, therefore, blindness and the like are not beings.^18 The ten genera ...
But“ 9 ”is not to be understood in terms of“ (^9) d,”despite the fact that the latter expression is more natural. The view defen ...
We... speak about being in two ways: in one way, as it comprehends only true real beings— and it transcends and contains under i ...
for ourhaving this schemeas opposed to some other turns more on facts about us than facts about the content of the scheme.^30 An ...
only ifxbears thebeing 5 feet fromrelation toy. So the relationbeing 5 feet fromis not mind-dependent.^34 Still, it might be a m ...
without claiming that they are eternally actual.”Coombs (1993: 450) quotes Punch as holding that the solution lies in positing“a ...
that ranges over obtaining concreta. But Meinongians needn’t follow the historical Meinong here. If they don’t, they should also ...
in which no minds or languages depend. Schiffer’s pleonastic propositions sound like a species of beings by courtesy. Part of Sc ...
Fs, to be sure. But the fact (if it is one) that the existence of ordinary objects can be established via similar arguments also ...
By my lights, there are interesting connections between these various candidate interpretations of“emptiness.”I claim that notre ...
Before we move on, one last disturbing possibility should be at least mentioned. This is the possibility that, in a sense, there ...
quantification is fundamental.^58 Once we recognize that these entities might be beings by courtesy, should we shift focus away ...
recover our innocence, and each generation born and raised with this augmented language inherits our original metaphysical sin. ...
utterances of claims such as“everything belongs to one of K1–K10,”the acceptance that everything is one of these kinds is not am ...
Thomas Hofweber (2009: 275–9) argues that natural language quantificational expressions are polysemous. He distinguishes between ...
in ordinary language, but my explanation of why certain ontological questions might be“easy”in no way commits me to claims of th ...
form a merely superficial superstructure of beings by courtesy?^68 Perhaps a stronger relation than asymmetric supervenience, su ...
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