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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, though it be true. That may be so and yet we know some facts, Despite the chance we鈥檙e all just brains in vats. And tracking…

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 challenge. Standard natural and formal languages carve up the world into at least objects and properties/relations satisfied by those objects. But the nihilist doesn鈥檛 think…

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 Nominalism: “it is pointless to do with more things what can be done with fewer”鈥攐r in a later formulation “entities should not be multiplied beyond…

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 Razor, the principle of parsimony that tells us that things should not be multiplied more than is necessary (all else being equal). After I distinguish…