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Predication and truthmaking: an improvement on the essentialist approach to truthmaking
This paper addresses some problems related to the relation of truthmaking, especially those concerning its necessity, adopting an essentialist point...
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Where Are Ethical Properties? Predication, Location, and Category Mistake
The debate between expressivism and representationalism raises the question of whether ethical claimsEthicsethical claims should be analyzed as...
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E. E. Constance Jones on Identity and Predication
E. E. Constance JonesJones, E. E. C. (1848–1922) is best known for her distinction between connotation and denotation, which predates Frege’sFrege,...
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Baroque Predication: “A Continuous Fresco, an Inner Concept, the Propositional Concept Itself”
“Baroque Predication: A Continuous Fresco, an Inner Conceptconcept, the Propositional Conceptconcept Itself” fleshes out the structural claim of the...
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Neutral Predication
Hanks has defended a novel account of what propositions are. His key argument against Soames' rival view is that predication is not neutral....
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Fischer on the Time of Death’s Badness
In a recent article in this journal, John Martin Fischer defends the view that death harms its victim after she dies. More specifically, he develops...
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Truth and Meaning
This chapter considers the importance of truth to Percy’s project. I begin by framing Percy’s work as a response to nominalism. Percy was a...
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A Computational Algebraic Analysis of Hindi Syntax
In this paper, we present a computational algebraic representation of Hindi syntax. This paper is the first attempt to establish the representation...
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Predication Sortalism
The focus of this chapter is on predication sortalism, that is, the view that exercise of predication necessarily requires sortal concepts. We...
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Formal Issues of Trope-Only Theories of Universals
The paper discusses some formal difficulties concerning the theory of universals of Trope-Only ontologies, from which the formal theory of...
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Two conceptions of absolute generality
What is absolutely unrestricted quantification? We distinguish two theoretical roles and identify two conceptions of absolute generality: maximally...
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Peacocke on the Structure of Content and Correctness Conditions
What is the relationship between the structure of the content of perceptions and judgments and the structure of their correctness conditions?...
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Quiddities and repeatables: towards a tripartite analysis of simple predicative statements
I argue that a tripartite analysis of simple statements such as “Bucephalus is a horse”, according to which they divide into two terms and a copula,...
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Simply providential: a Thomistic response to Schmid’s providential collapse argument against classical theism
Classical theism is often said to suffer from the problem of modal collapse: if God is necessary and simple then all of his effects (creatures) are...
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Ficta and Amorphism: a Proposal for a Theory of Fictional Entities
The aim of this paper is to propose an exploratory artefactual theory of fictional objects based on Evnine’s amorphism, with the goal of reconciling...
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“Real Presence” Is Not Enough: Recovering the Lost Semantics of Transubstantiation
Catholic doctrine makes metaphysical claims about the Eucharist, but the distinctive language of “transubstantiation” is often treated as an...
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A Theo-logy Without logos: On Jean-Luc Marion’s Axio-meonto-theology
This paper aims to argue that Jean-Luc Marion’s philosophical theology is an axio-meonto- Theo -logy which proposes a new way of approaching God. The...
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Predication and sortal concepts
We shall distinguish between sortal predication and standard predication. The former kind of predication necessarily involves sortal concepts but the...
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Natural-Language Predicates as Relations of the Relational Model of Data
In this paper I review the Neo-Davidsonian semantics of prepositional phrases and secondary predication. I argue that certain types of examples pose...
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Confusion of the Living with the Made
If logos is considered to be that which takes place in itself, by itself and for itself (cf. Heidegger, Qu’appelle-t-on penser?, Deuxième partie, V;...