2016
DOI: 10.5840/philinquiry2016403/423
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A Discussion of a Certain Type of Negative Proposition

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“…Russell's endorsement of negative facts during a conference at Harvard allegedly (almost) sparked off a riot (Russell 1918: 211). Negative entities have been described as mysterious (Molnar 2000), not causally efficient (Molnar 2000;Dowe 2001), non-perceivable 14 in a direct or non-inferential way (Demos 1917;Molnar 2000), non-physical and, generally speaking, mind-dependent. 15 Armstrong's view has been criticized both as implicitly admitting negative states of affairs as well as on its own merits (Molnar 2000;Kukso 2006;Jago 2013).…”
Section: Rejection Of Thesis (Iv)mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Russell's endorsement of negative facts during a conference at Harvard allegedly (almost) sparked off a riot (Russell 1918: 211). Negative entities have been described as mysterious (Molnar 2000), not causally efficient (Molnar 2000;Dowe 2001), non-perceivable 14 in a direct or non-inferential way (Demos 1917;Molnar 2000), non-physical and, generally speaking, mind-dependent. 15 Armstrong's view has been criticized both as implicitly admitting negative states of affairs as well as on its own merits (Molnar 2000;Kukso 2006;Jago 2013).…”
Section: Rejection Of Thesis (Iv)mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…What makes Demos' article relevant in the context of this discussion on Tractarian negation, its commitment to an image of a formal, neutral, combinatorial and truth‐functional logic, and, therefore, its inability to express ascriptions of degrees to empirical qualities is the very announcement of his goal to discover “the form of negative proposition” (Demos : 188). The idea of a general negation form to be pursued or discovered for simply not being visible in non‐analysed everyday sentences must be highlighted here.…”
Section: Demos' Denial: Negation Reducible To Some Positive Propositionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Demos does not develop the idea of a negative proposition being related to all other propositions, but he suggests it in the beginning of his paper. Demos states that he is aiming at discovering the relation between negative propositions and the “total field of propositions” (Demos : 188). In this way, Wittgenstein's solution in his return to Philosophy in 1929, as well as Demos' view of denial, both suggest a radical type of semantic holism; to understand a proposition means to understand the system of oppositions, exclusions and implications in which the proposition is necessarily inserted.…”
Section: Demos' Denial: Negation Reducible To Some Positive Propositionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Mellor's strategy is similar to Demos's (1917), to which Russell is responding (1918: p. 211-214). The question Russell presses on Demos is: how should we interpret 'not-p'?…”
Section: T2mentioning
confidence: 99%