Sophisticated Linguistic Modal Theories
This work presents and discusses three recent proposals for the explanation of possible worlds by means of linguistic constructions. In the first part the main difficulties and objections leveled against the linguistic conception of possible worlds are briefly exposed. Then, the proposals of Roy,Mel...
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| description | This work presents and discusses three recent proposals for the explanation of possible worlds by means of linguistic constructions. In the first part the main difficulties and objections leveled against the linguistic conception of possible worlds are briefly exposed. Then, the proposals of Roy,Melia and Sider are discussed with some detail. In all three cases a basic problem is pointed out: the proposals work by the introduction of certain linguistic elements (extra names, pixels and quantifiers ranging over possibilia) whose semantic function is never well understood. Those linguistic elements might be intelligible if there were an independent and objective realm of modal facts, but the elements are proposed precisely to play the role of those facts. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9e108162fee64b9b9d3edfb64180ce7f2022-12-22T02:48:01ZspaUniversidad Pontificia ComillasPensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica0031-47492386-58222015-03-01642403153433050Sophisticated Linguistic Modal TheoriesJosé Tomás Alvarado Marambio0Instituto de Filosofía. Pontificia Universidad Católica de ValparaísoThis work presents and discusses three recent proposals for the explanation of possible worlds by means of linguistic constructions. In the first part the main difficulties and objections leveled against the linguistic conception of possible worlds are briefly exposed. Then, the proposals of Roy,Melia and Sider are discussed with some detail. In all three cases a basic problem is pointed out: the proposals work by the introduction of certain linguistic elements (extra names, pixels and quantifiers ranging over possibilia) whose semantic function is never well understood. Those linguistic elements might be intelligible if there were an independent and objective realm of modal facts, but the elements are proposed precisely to play the role of those facts.https://revistas.upcomillas.es/index.php/pensamiento/article/view/3205modalidad, lenguaje, mundos posibles, metafísica, pluriverso |
| spellingShingle | José Tomás Alvarado Marambio Sophisticated Linguistic Modal Theories Pensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica modalidad, lenguaje, mundos posibles, metafísica, pluriverso |
| title | Sophisticated Linguistic Modal Theories |
| title_full | Sophisticated Linguistic Modal Theories |
| title_fullStr | Sophisticated Linguistic Modal Theories |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sophisticated Linguistic Modal Theories |
| title_short | Sophisticated Linguistic Modal Theories |
| title_sort | sophisticated linguistic modal theories |
| topic | modalidad, lenguaje, mundos posibles, metafísica, pluriverso |
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