Journal article
Sider's Ontologese introduction instructions
- Abstract:
- In response to Hirsch’sdeflationary arguments, Sider attempts to introduce a specialOntologese quantifier to preserve the substantivity of fundamental debates in metaphysics. Heclaims that this strategy can be effected by two distinct means, one of which is a list of instruc-tions for metaphysicians, which he argues suffice to give the new quantifier a meaning that carvesnature at the joints. I argue that these instructions will not allow someone to start speaking Onto-logese if their prior language is sufficiently deviant with respect to it, and that natural languagesmay be in just such a position.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1111/theo.12153
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- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Journal:
- Theoria More from this journal
- Volume:
- 84
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 295-308
- Publication date:
- 2018-07-19
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-05-25
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1755-2567
- ISSN:
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0040-5825
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English
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1102334
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pubs:1102334
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2020-04-29
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- © 2018 The Authors. Theoria published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Stifielsen Theoria This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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