Absolute Generality Reconsidered
Years ago, when I was young and reckless, I believed that there was such a thing as an allinclusive domain.1 Now I have come to see the error of my ways. The source of my mistake was a view that might be labeled ‘Tractarianism’. Tractarians believe that language is subject to a metaphysical constrai...
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2012
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| author | Rayo, Agustin |
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| description | Years ago, when I was young and reckless, I believed that there was such a thing as an allinclusive domain.1 Now I have come to see the error of my ways. The source of my mistake was a view that might be labeled ‘Tractarianism’. Tractarians believe that language is subject to a metaphysical constraint. In order for an atomic sentence to be true, there needs to be a certain kind of correspondence between the semantic structure of the sentence and the ‘metaphysical structure’ of reality. The purpose of this paper is to explain why I think Tractarianism is mistaken, and what I think an anti-Tractarian should say about absolutely general quantification. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/718172022-09-30T19:25:19Z Absolute Generality Reconsidered Rayo, Agustin Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Rayo, Agustin Rayo, Agustin Years ago, when I was young and reckless, I believed that there was such a thing as an allinclusive domain.1 Now I have come to see the error of my ways. The source of my mistake was a view that might be labeled ‘Tractarianism’. Tractarians believe that language is subject to a metaphysical constraint. In order for an atomic sentence to be true, there needs to be a certain kind of correspondence between the semantic structure of the sentence and the ‘metaphysical structure’ of reality. The purpose of this paper is to explain why I think Tractarianism is mistaken, and what I think an anti-Tractarian should say about absolutely general quantification. 2012-07-25T20:19:07Z 2012-07-25T20:19:07Z 2012-12 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/BookItem 9780199659081 0199659087 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71817 Rayo, Agustin. "Absolute Generality Reconsidered." Chapter 4 in Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, Volume 7, Edited by Karen Bennett and Dean W. Zimmerman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Dec. 2012. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1847-2770 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199659081.001.0001 Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, Volume 7 Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ application/pdf Oxford University Press MIT web domain |
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