Tomasz Kąkol, “Two Problems of Ontology of States of Affairs: Negative States of Affairs and the Slingshot Argument,” Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80, no. 4 (2024): 1123–32, https://doi.org/10.17990/RPF/2024_80_4_1123.
| Item Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Tomasz Kąkol |
| Abstract | In this article I briefly discuss two problems of ontology of states of affairs: the issue of negative states of affairs and the so-called slingshot argument. In particular, I consider several objections against negative states of affairs, including this one: if one accepts the existence of negative states of affairs, why not accept the existence of conjunctive states of affairs (or, alternatively, Shefferian ones, or even binegative ones), which results, it seems, in the acceptance of the existence of states of affairs of any logical form. I argue that regardless of this doubt, at least some negative sentences have (non-trivial) ontological correlates. As for the slingshot argument, I argue that it is not the implicated Principle of Extensionality that is at fault, but the principle of the identity of the correlates of logically equivalent sentences (often called ‘Wittgenstein’s Principle’), which is simply false since ‘2+2=4’ and ‘8-5=3’ are just logically equivalent. |
| Date | 2024 |
| Language | English |
| Rights | © 2024 Aletheia - Associação Científica e Cultural |
| Volume | 80 |
| Pages | 1123-1132 |
| Publication | Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia |
| DOI | 10.17990/RPF/2024_80_4_1123 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Date Added | 12/6/2024, 8:33:06 PM |
| Modified | 12/6/2024, 10:21:59 PM |
Biłat, Andrzej. „Filozoficzne podstawy logiki sytuacji”. In Aporie ontologii sytuacji, edited by Andrzej Biłat, 95-153. Lublin: Wydawnictwo UMCS, 2009
Chisholm, Roderick. Person and Object. A Metaphysical Study. La Salle: Open Court, 1979, doi: 10.4324/9781315830223
Ingarden, Roman. The Literary Work of Art. An Investigation on the Borderlines of Ontology, Logic and Theory of Literature. Translated by G. G. Grabowicz. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1973
Ingarden, Roman. Controversy over the Existence of the World. Vol. II. Translated by A. Szylewicz. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2016, doi: 10.3726/978-3-653-02504-0
Kripke, Saul. “Identity and Necessity”. In Identity and Individuation, edited by Milton Munitz, 135-164. New York: New York University Press, 1971, doi: 10.2307/2025325
Neale, Stephen. Facing Facts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001
Piwowarczyk, Marek. Podmiot i własności. Analiza podstawowej struktury przedmiotu [Subject and Properties. The Analysis of Fundamental Structure of Object]. Lublin: Wydawnictwo KUL, 2015
Wójtowicz, Anna. „Problemy ontologii sytuacji”. In Aporie ontologii sytuacji, edited by Andrzej Biłat, 13-35. Lublin: Wydawnictwo UMCS, 2009
