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Serious actualism, typography, and incompossible sentences
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dc.contributor.author | Masterman, Christopher James | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-05-05T15:30:02Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-05-05T15:30:02Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-04-18 | |
dc.identifier | 285461022 | |
dc.identifier | 1dd41777-262e-4a4d-9843-3970ecd1338d | |
dc.identifier | 85153349218 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Masterman , C J 2023 , ' Serious actualism, typography, and incompossible sentences ' , Erkenntnis , vol. First Online . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-023-00688-1 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1572-8420 | |
dc.identifier.other | RIS: urn:5482DCD7346DF9A0F179AD9B2DD34CBE | |
dc.identifier.other | RIS: Masterman2023 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/27520 | |
dc.description.abstract | Serious actualists take it that all properties are existence entailing. I present a simple puzzle about sentence tokens which seems to show that serious actualism is false. I then consider the most promising response to the puzzle. This is the idea that the serious actualist should take ordinary property-talk to contain an implicit existential presupposition. I argue that this approach does not work: it fails to generalise appropriately to all sentence types and tokens. In particular, it fails to capture the right distinctions we ought to make between what I call typographical sentence types—an interesting and previously undiscussed class of fine-grained sentence types which are partially individuated by their typography, or how they look when written out. | |
dc.format.extent | 18 | |
dc.format.extent | 872851 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Erkenntnis | en |
dc.subject | B Philosophy (General) | en |
dc.subject | T-NDAS | en |
dc.subject | NIS | en |
dc.subject.lcc | B1 | en |
dc.title | Serious actualism, typography, and incompossible sentences | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. University of St Andrews | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Philosophy | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-023-00688-1 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
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