TY - JOUR T1 - Heidegger’s Logico-Semantic Strikeback JF - Organon F Y1 - 2015 A1 - Voltolini, Alberto KW - Impossibilia KW - logical form KW - metaphysics KW - nothing KW - ontology KW - possibilia KW - theory of descriptions AB - In (1959), Carnap famously attacked Heidegger for having constructed an insane metaphysics based on a misconception of both the logical form and the semantics of ordinary language. In what follows, it will be argued that, once one appropriately (i.e., in a Russellian fashion) reads Heidegger’s famous sentence that should paradigmatically exemplify such a misconception, i.e., “the nothing nothings”, there is nothing either logically or semantically wrong with it. The real controversy as to how that sentence has to be evaluated—not as to its meaning but as to its truth—lies at the metaphysico-ontological level. For in order for the sentence to be true one has to endorse an ontology of impossibilia and Leibniz’s principle of the identity of indiscernibles. IS - 1 VL - 22 SP - 19-38 UR - http://www.klemens.sav.sk/fiusav/doc/organon/prilohy/2015/1/19-38.pdf U2 - Articles U3 - 1938 U5 - 1 TI - Heidegger’s Logico-Semantic Strikeback ER -