Sider's Ontologese Introduction Instructions
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Publication Date
2018-12-01Journal Title
Theoria (Sweden)
ISSN
0040-5825
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Volume
84
Issue
4
Pages
295-308
Type
Article
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Wrigley, W. (2018). Sider's Ontologese Introduction Instructions. Theoria (Sweden), 84 (4), 295-308. https://doi.org/10.1111/theo.12153
Abstract
In response to Hirsch's deflationary arguments, Sider attempts to introduce a special Ontologese quantifier to preserve the substantivity of fundamental debates in metaphysics. He claims that this strategy can be effected by two distinct means, one of which is a list of instructions for metaphysicians, which he argues suffice to give the new quantifier a meaning that carves nature at the joints. I argue that these instructions will not allow someone to start speaking Ontologese if their prior language is sufficiently deviant with respect to it, and that natural languages may be in just such a position.
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External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/theo.12153
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/282842