Counting Things that Could Exist

Counting Things that Could Exist
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计算可能存在的事物

DOI:
10.1093/pq/pqw039
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发表时间:
2016
期刊:
The Philosophical Quarterly
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通讯作者:
T. Rosefeldt
T. Rosefeldt
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本文讨论了计算可能存在但实际上不存在的事物的情况,这些情况抵制了现实主义释义的共同策略,并在推动蒂莫西·威廉姆森的偶然具体对象本体论中发挥了重要作用。有人认为,这些案例应该被理解为量化的案例,而不是对单个可能对象的量化,而是对各种对象的量化,其中一些对象实际上没有实例。这种说法的动机是与其他具有类似逻辑形式的自然语言量化案例进行比较,在任何情况下,这些案例都必须被解释为涉及对各种事物的量化,即使它们的表面结构似乎表明并非如此。
The paper deals with cases of counting things that could exist but do not actually exist that resist common strategies for actualist paraphrases and that play an important role in motivating Timothy Williamson's ontology of contingently concrete objects. It is argued that these cases should be understood as cases of quantification not over individual possible objects but rather over kinds of objects, some of which do not actually have instances. This claim is motivated by a comparison with other cases of natural-language quantification with a similar logical form that, in any case, have to be interpreted as involving quantification over kinds of things even if their surface structure seems to suggest otherwise.
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