Though faced with Kripke鈥檚 clear knock-down objection, Don鈥檛 be too quick with tracking-the-truth rejection. OK, one knows a red barn for its hue, Yet knows it not as a barn,…
Title: Saying Something with Nothing Abstract: Ontological nihilism is the view that fundamentally there are no objects. Whilst it is an increasingly popular view, nihilists face a so-called expressive adequacy…
Title: Commitment Issues? Nominalism and the Semantics of Empty Terms (In Late-Medieval Logic) Abstract: Usually, the label “Nominalism” evokes sorne kind of ontological parsimony. Ockham’s Razor epitomizes this understanding of…
Title: Co-intensional Properties and Running Afoul of Ockham’s Razor Abstract: Hyperintensionalists like myself hold that there are distinct but co-intensional properties. However, intensionalists object that accepting such properties violates Ockham鈥檚…
We will be discussing Chapters 1 and 2.
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