Higher-order contingentism, part 3: Expressive limitations

P Fritz - Journal of Philosophical Logic, 2018 - Springer
Journal of Philosophical Logic, 2018Springer
Two expressive limitations of an infinitary higher-order modal language interpreted on
models for higher-order contingentism–the thesis that it is contingent what propositions,
properties and relations there are–are established: First, the inexpressibility of certain
relations, which leads to the fact that certain model-theoretic existence conditions for
relations cannot equivalently be reformulated in terms of being expressible in such a
language. Second, the inexpressibility of certain modalized cardinality claims, which shows …
Abstract
Two expressive limitations of an infinitary higher-order modal language interpreted on models for higher-order contingentism – the thesis that it is contingent what propositions, properties and relations there are – are established: First, the inexpressibility of certain relations, which leads to the fact that certain model-theoretic existence conditions for relations cannot equivalently be reformulated in terms of being expressible in such a language. Second, the inexpressibility of certain modalized cardinality claims, which shows that in such a language, higher-order contingentists cannot express what is communicated using various instances of talk of ‘possible things’, such as ‘there are uncountably many possible stars’.
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