Meta Ontology

jest opublikowany w roku

• 2006

ma metadane w formacie Bibtex

• @article{Kukso2006-KUKTRO,pages = {21--37},volume = {84},title = {The Reality of Absences},year = {2006},journal = {Australasian Journal of Philosophy},author = {Boris Kukso},abstract = {In this paper, I make a contribution to a naturalistically-minded theory of truthmakers by proposing a solution to the nasty problem of truthmakers for negative truths. After formulating the difficulty, I consider and reject a number of solutions to the problem, including Armstrong's states of affairs of totality, incompatibility accounts, and JC $<$span class='Hi'$>$Beall$<$/span$>$'s polarity view. I then defend the position that absences of truthmakers are real and are responsible for making negative truths true (and positive falsehoods false). According to the positive account of absences I offer, absences of contingent states of affairs are causally relevant mind-independent features of the physical world, located within space and time, and capable of being discovered by scientific inquiry. Recognition of the reality of absences strengthens truthmaker theory as a naturalistic metaphysics, as truth and falsity of each and every contingent proposition finds an ontological grounding in some region of the physical universe.},number = {1}}@

ma tytuł

• The Reality of Absences

ostatnia strona

• 37

pierwsza strona

• 21