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Sprachlogik: Articles at a glance
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A philosophy blog with a focus on logic and language. Articles at a glance. Articles at a glance. These appear in ascending chronological order, so to see the latest, scroll to the bottom of the list. A Liar Paradox of Material Implication. Posted 24 February 2011. A Note on Hofweber's Distinction between Internal and External Quantification. Posted 16 March 2011. Comment on Brogaard and Salerno's 'Counterfactuals and Context'. Posted 7 April 2011. Posted 29 April 2011. Three True Semantic Externalisms.
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Sprachlogik: February 2015
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A philosophy blog with a focus on logic and language. Articles at a glance. Sunday, 15 February 2015. Modality and Quantifying In. This is the first in a series of posts about these issues, the plan for which is given below. On Kripke's Intuitive Anti-Quinean Defence of De Re. Toward an Account of De Re Modal Ascriptions. An Interpretation of Quantified Modal Logic Formulae. My account of subjunctive necessity. Subjunctive necessity (assuming such a thing is to be recognized at all). Seem to already, nat...
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Sprachlogik: July 2015
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A philosophy blog with a focus on logic and language. Articles at a glance. Sunday, 12 July 2015. An Account of the Analytic/Synthetic Distinction. Some of the intuitive characterisations given, in the last post. Of the notion of internality of truth-value – such as 'internal meaning determines truth-value' - sound a lot like a common post-Kantian way of characterising or defining analyticity, namely as 'truth in virtue of meaning'. This raises the question of whether the class of. It is well known that ...
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Sprachlogik: A Fallacy in Hofweber's Arguments in Ontology
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A philosophy blog with a focus on logic and language. Articles at a glance. Monday, 19 August 2013. A Fallacy in Hofweber's Arguments in Ontology. This is a draft of a paper. Thomas Hofweber has for several years been developing a distinctive approach to ontological and metaontological questions. Next, Hofweber argues that numerals, number words like 'four', and terms like 'the number 2' are not referring terms. I.e., that they are not in the business of referring to things. They sometime...Then, on the ...
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Sprachlogik: Forthcoming in Philosophia
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A philosophy blog with a focus on logic and language. Articles at a glance. Monday, 1 June 2015. My paper 'A Problem for Hofweber's Ontological Project' is forthcoming in. It grew out of. The final draft is available. My preoccupation with arguing against Hofweber goes back further. Than that blog post, and he has always been very gracious and encouraging about it. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). On Identity Statements: In Defense of a Sui Generis. Against the Brogaard-Salerno Stricture. The no-mirac...
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Sprachlogik: Propositions: A Neo-Wittgensteinian Approach
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A philosophy blog with a focus on logic and language. Articles at a glance. Monday, 6 January 2014. Propositions: A Neo-Wittgensteinian Approach. As I use the term 'proposition', propositions are propositional signs (e.g. declarative sentences) together with their internal uses or meanings, plus any external projective relations borne to reality by the component signs. This is partly inspired by the conception of propositions espoused in the Tractatus. I might say: the only thing that is of interest to m...
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Sprachlogik: March 2015
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A philosophy blog with a focus on logic and language. Articles at a glance. Tuesday, 17 March 2015. On Kripke's Intuitive Anti-Quinean Defence of De Re. This is the second post in a series on. De re modality and quantification into modal contexts. The first is here. Immediately after the passage quoted at the beginning of the last post where Kripke introduces the problem of. Modality, he goes on to argue that. Here is the passage:. The actual winner, had the course of the campaign been different, might h...
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Sprachlogik: Toward an Account of De Re Modal Ascriptions
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A philosophy blog with a focus on logic and language. Articles at a glance. Saturday, 11 April 2015. Toward an Account of De Re. This is the third post in a series on. Modality and quantification into modal contexts. This one is quite exploratory and anything but final. The first two posts are here. Let us begin by considering a simple proposal and two problems with it:. Is necessarily F iff ' a. Is F' is necessary. Is correctly answered in the affirmative. This gives rise to various terminological oppor...
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Sprachlogik: May 2015
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A philosophy blog with a focus on logic and language. Articles at a glance. Monday, 25 May 2015. Illusory Explanatory Benefits in Philosophy. This post was prompted by a recent blog post of Wolfgang Schwarz's. See also a recent post of Alexander Pruss's. 8220;The difficult thing here is not, to dig down to the ground; no, it is to recognize that the ground that lies before us is the ground” - Wittgenstein ( Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics. VI 31, p.333). In On the Plurality or Worlds. Mars has ...
