The paper presents the most important assumptions of Henryk Elzenberg’s formal axiology concerning the concepts of ought and obligation. For this purpose, the formal language of deontic logic was used. In this language, the HE theory was presented, which was characterized both from the syntactic and semantic side. Usin...
This article argues that Russell's paradox can be solved by amending the theory in a zigzag fashion. The first part of the article sets out several reasons why this kind of revision to Frege's system is preferable to other solutions. More specifically, we argue that the extensionality function implicitly described by F...
Ludovica Conti· Teorema. Revista Internacion...· 0 citations
How can the phenomenon of reference to particular individuals be explained? This book examines the ongoing debate about the semantic relevance of Keith Donnellan's distinction between referential and attributive uses of descriptions and about the semantic foundation of direct reference. A new solution to this debate is...
In this book, Jeremy Kirby analyzes Book Gamma of Aristotle's Metaphysics and introduces the debates (or paradoxes as he refers to them) such as relativism versus the idea of a ready-made world, the possibility of true contradictions, the nature and possibility of metaphysics, the limits of thought, and logic.
Most theorists have offered different accounts of reference fixing for names, demonstratives, and indexicals. Indeed, this variety can seem an inevitable response to a certain class of hard cases. Here, I will offer a unified account of reference fixing equally capable of handling these cases. Then, I will show how t...
Eliot Michaelson· Philosophy and Phenomenologi...· 0 citations
Spinoza’s remarks on language are often treated as fragmentary and inconsistent with his philosophy. This paper argues that they become intelligible when situated within his account of the imaginative origin of language. Drawing on Part II of the Ethics, it shows how linguistic signs arise from stabilized association...
Giacomo Tore· JOLMA· 0 citations
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