According to the structured theory of propositions, if two sentences express the same proposition, then they have the same syntactic structure, with corresponding syntactic …
P Fritz, NK Jones - Higher-Order Metaphysics, 2024 - books.google.com
Higher-order metaphysics uses the formal languages of higher-order logic to formulate metaphysical views and arguments. This chapter provides an introduction to the field and an …
J Goodman - Journal of Philosophical Logic, 2023 - Springer
Some propositions are true, and it is true that some propositions are true. Each of these facts looks like an impeccable ground of the other. But they cannot both ground each other, since …
R Trueman - Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract According to the Dependency Theory, truth asymmetrically depends on the world, in the following sense: true propositions are true because the world makes them true. The …
SZ Elgin - The Review of Symbolic Logic, 2023 - cambridge.org
I provide an analysis of sentences of the form 'To be F is to be G'in terms of exact truth-maker semantics—an approach that identifies the meanings of sentences with the states of the …
Consider the sentence “Lois knows that Superman flies, but she doesn't know that Clark flies”. In this paper we defend a Millian contextualist semantics for propositional attitude …
This chapter offers an opinionated introduction to higher-order formal languages with an eye towards their applications in metaphysics. These languages go beyond the first-order …
Higher‐order metaphysicians take facts to be higher‐order beings, ie, entities in the range of irreducibly higher‐order quantifiers. In this paper, I investigate the impact of this conception …