Beta-Conversion and the Being Constraint
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Modal contingentists face a dilemma: there are two attractive principles of which they can only accept one. In this paper I show that the most natural way of resolving the dilemma leads to expressive limitations. I then deve...
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<jats:p>Modal contingentists face a dilemma: there are two attractive principles of which they can only accept one. In this paper I show that the most natural way of resolving the dilemma leads to expressive limitations. I then develop an alternative resolution. In addition to overcoming the expressive limitations, the alternative picture allows for an attractive account of arithmetic and for a style of semantic theorizing that can be helpful to contingentists.</jats:p> |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1443442023-04-20T19:13:46Z Beta-Conversion and the Being Constraint Rayo, Agustín Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Modal contingentists face a dilemma: there are two attractive principles of which they can only accept one. In this paper I show that the most natural way of resolving the dilemma leads to expressive limitations. I then develop an alternative resolution. In addition to overcoming the expressive limitations, the alternative picture allows for an attractive account of arithmetic and for a style of semantic theorizing that can be helpful to contingentists.</jats:p> 2022-08-12T14:53:34Z 2022-08-12T14:53:34Z 2021 2022-08-12T14:49:01Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/144344 Rayo, Agustín. 2021. "Beta-Conversion and the Being Constraint." Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume, 95 (1). en 10.1093/ARISUP/AKAB009 Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Oxford University Press (OUP) MIT web domain |
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