Meta Ontology

jest opublikowany w roku

• 1997

ma metadane w formacie Bibtex

• @article{Reimer1997-REICTH,abstract = {Kripke and Dummett disagree over whether or not there could have been unicorns. Kripke thinks that there could not have been; Dummett thinks otherwise. I argue that Kripke is correct: there are no counterfactual situations properly describable as ones in which there would have been unicorns. In attempting to establish this claim, I argue that Dummett's critique of an argument (reminiscent of an argument of Kripke's) to the conclusion that there could not have been unicorns, is vitiated by a conflation of two superficially similar, though importantly different, claims. I then attempt to provide an account of the counter-intuitiveness of Kripke's position, arguing that the claim that there could not have been unicorns is best understood as a semantic, rather than metaphysical, claim. Finally, I provide a brief argument on behalf of the semantics of species terms that appears to underpin Kripke's position.},year = {1997},number = {1},pages = {35--51},title = {Could There Have Been Unicorns?},author = {Marga Reimer},volume = {5},journal = {International Journal of Philosophical Studies}}@

ma tytuł

• Could There Have Been Unicorns?

ostatnia strona

• 51

pierwsza strona

• 35