Models as Hypostatizations: The Case of Supervaluationism in Semantics

García‐Carpintero, Manuel

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“…For the epistemological reasons mentioned above, I doubt that answers to them can be adequately motivated (Bueno & Cumpa, 2021). Note that the worry is not indeterminacy per se; in my view, most of our claims about moderate‐sized specimens of dry goods like Kilimanjaro have indeterminate contents (García‐Carpintero, 2021b). The worry is rather that, from the perspective of people competently engaging with fictions, seeking replies to them sounds like asking “silly questions” about fictions (Lewis, 1978, p. 270); but this is the appropriate perspective from which to address them.…”

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“…The main point I have been making here (as in the companion piece, García-Carpintero, 2022a) is that an adequate philosophical treatment of these issues should be grounded on an account of the nature of fictions and textual uses. When we think of the commitment to fictional objects I have assumed from this viewpoint, it can be argued than the resulting form of realism is so thin as to be ultimately taken as a form of irrealism (García-Carpintero, 2021b;Thomasson, 2021). 34 In this paper I have reviewed recent work on the semantics of fictional discourse.…”

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The semantics of fiction

García‐Carpintero

2022

Mind & Language

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The paper reviews proposals by Abell, Predelli, and others on the semantics of fiction, focusing on the discourse through which fictions are created. Predelli develops the radical fictionalism of former writers like Kripke and van Inwagen, according to which that discourse is contentless and does not express propositions. This paper offers reasons to doubt these claims. It then explores realist proposals like Abell's in which singular terms in fictions refer to fictional characters, understood as socially created representational artifacts, and irrealist alternatives in which the discourse is fully meaningful even though those terms fail to refer.

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The semantics of fiction

García‐Carpintero

2022

Mind & Language

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“…In a few words, although a defense of metaphor as a sufficient type of model was defeated a long time ago, the defense of some of the advantages of metaphor remains acceptable, and among these advantages, we found the item "b" that we just explained, i.e., that metaphor approach of scientific model opens unique approaches to make a phenomenon understandable (Bailer-Jones 2002a;Black 1962;Carrillo and Knuuttila 2021;García-Carpintero 2021).…”

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An alternative View for Scientific Models Based on Metaphors: a case analysis from Darwin's use of metaphors

Oliveira

2022

Principia

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This paper aims to offer an alternative view for understanding scientific models based on metaphors. To accomplish this, we employ a special case of Darwin’s use of metaphors, such as the notion of powerful Being, in order to represent natural selection. Our proposal contributes to issues in the literature of scientific model, such as imprecisions in the understanding of scientific models, especially in models based on metaphors. Thus, our alternative view of models based on metaphors, and inspired by Darwin’s use of metaphors, provides us with four features, a-simplification and selection; b-articulation of familiar-unfamiliar structures; c-accessibility and moderations of complexity, and finally d-local realism. We contrast these features with Darwin’s use of a metaphors. We conclude by saying that our proposal of metaphor’s approach of models does not only contribute to the clarification of how these types of scientific models can be understood but it shows that metaphors can also contain a realist element that explains why scientists often use it in their practices of modeling the world.

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Models as Hypostatizations: The Case of Supervaluationism in Semantics

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The semantics of fiction

The semantics of fiction

An alternative View for Scientific Models Based on Metaphors: a case analysis from Darwin's use of metaphors

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