Our everyday experiences present us with a wide array of objects: dogs and cats, tables and chairs, trees and their branches, and so forth. These sorts of ordinary objects may seem …
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In this article, the author focuses on the relationship between metaphysical indeterminacy and fundamental indeterminacy. Topics discussed include standard arguments for …
The way we represent the world in thought and language is shot through with indeterminacy: we speak of red apples and yellow apples without thereby committing to any sharp cutoff …
Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana Points of View as Access Page 1 Synthese Library Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 392 Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana …
It has been argued that quantum mechanics forces us to accept the existence of metaphysical, mind-independent indeterminacy. In this paper, we provide an interpretation …
How does vagueness interact with metaphysical modality and with restrictions of it, such as nomological modality? In particular, how do definiteness, necessity (understood as restricted …
Creationism is the thesis there are abstract artifacts, that is, objects that have no spatial location and that are deliberately brought into existence as a result of creative acts. One …
In this paper, I aim to discuss what puns, metaphysically, are. I argue that the type-token view of words leads to an indeterminacy problem when we consider puns. I then outline an …
ABSTRACT I propose a different account of fictional objects from the ones already present in the literature. According to my account, fictional objects are culturally created abstract …