Detail príspevku/publikácie

Heidegger’s Logico-Semantic Strikeback

Organon F, 2015, vol. 22, Supplementary Issue 1, pp. 19-38.
Súbor na stiahnutie: PDF*
BibTex EndNote Tagged EndNote XML RIS

Štatistika dokumentu:

Počet prístupov: 2,259
Počet prístupov dnes: 0
Naposledy zobrazené: 27.03.2024 - 21:39
Počet stiahnutí PDF: 658

Abstrakt

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.

Kľúčové slová

Impossibilia, logical form, metaphysics, nothing, ontology, possibilia, theory of descriptions

*Príspevok je chránený zákonom o autorskom práve a právach súvisiacich s autorským právom (autorský zákon).