Fregeanism, sententialism, and scope

Lederman, Harvey

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“…For instance, following Quine ( 1956) and especially Kaplan (1968) (cf. Kaplan, 1986), many philosophers have held that variables behave differently from names in the scope of attitude verbs, in such a way that (2) is rejected (for recent developments, see Yalcin, 2015, Lederman, 2022. But, crucially, these strategies do not offer any hope for responding to the earlier argument from [B] to [D], because that argument does not use any premise analogous to (2).…”

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Higher-Order Metaphysics and Propositional Attitudes

Lederman

2024

Higher-Order Metaphysics

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According to relationism, for Alice to believe that some rabbits can speak is for Alice to stand in a relation to a further entity, some rabbits can speak. But what could this further entity possibly be? Higher-order metaphysics seems to offer a simple, natural answer. On this view (roughly put), expressions in different syntactic categories (for instance: names, predicates, sentences) in general denote entities in correspondingly different ontological categories. Alice's belief can thus be understood to relate her to a sui generis entity denoted by “some rabbits can speak”, belonging to a different ontological category than Alice herself. This straightforward account of the attitudes has historically been deemed so attractive that it was seen as an important motivation for higher-order metaphysics itself (Prior 1971). But I argue that it is not as straightforward as it might seem, and in fact that propositional attitudes present a foundational challenge for higher-order metaphysics.

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Section: Higher-order Metaphysics and Propositional Attitudes 327mentioning

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Higher-Order Metaphysics and Propositional Attitudes

Lederman

2024

Higher-Order Metaphysics

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Fregeanism, sententialism, and scope

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