Name: Talking About Nothing: Numbers, Hallucinations and Fictions (en Inglés)
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Author: Jody Azzouni
ISBN: 9780199937684

portada Talking About Nothing: Numbers, Hallucinations and Fictions (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

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Oxford University Press

Autor

Jody Azzouni

Año

2012

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Inglés

N° páginas

282

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

0199937680

ISBN13

9780199937684

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Talking About Nothing: Numbers, Hallucinations and Fictions (en Inglés)

Jody Azzouni (Autor) · Oxford University Press · Tapa Blanda

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Ordinary language and scientific language enable us to speak about, in a singular way (using demonstratives and names), what we recognize not to exist: fictions, the contents of our hallucinations, abstract objects, and various idealized but nonexistent objects that our scientific theories are often couched in terms of. Indeed, references to such nonexistent items-especially in the case of the application of mathematics to the sciences-are indispensable. We cannot avoid talking about such things. Scientific and ordinary languages thus enable us to say things about Pegasus or about hallucinated objects that are true (or false), such as "Pegasus was believed by the ancient Greeks to be a flying horse," or "That elf I'm now hallucinating over there is wearing blue shoes." Standard contemporary metaphysical views and semantic analyses of singular idioms on offer in contemporary philosophy of language have not successfully accommodated these routine practices of saying true and false things about the nonexistent while simultaneously honoring the insight that such things do not exist in any way at all (and have no properties). That is, philosophers often feel driven to claim that such objects do exist, or they claim that all our talk isn't genuine truth-apt talk, but only pretence. This book reconfigures metaphysics (and the role of metaphysics in semantics) in radical ways that allow the accommodation of our ordinary ways of speaking of what does not exist while retaining the absolutely crucial presupposition that such objects exist in no way at all, have no properties, and so are not the truth-makers for the truths and falsities that are about them.