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Fundamentals Of Ontological Commitment

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Author : Paolo Valore
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2016-01-15

Fundamentals Of Ontological Commitment written by Paolo Valore and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-15 with Philosophy categories.

Scientific literature on particular themes in ontology is extremely abundant, but it is often very hard for freshmen or sophomores to find a red thread between the various proposals. This text is an opinionated introduction, a preliminary text to research in ontology from the so called standard approach to ontological commitment, that is from the particular point of view that connects ontological questions to quantificational questions. It offers a survey of this viewpoint in ontology together with their possible applications through a broad array of examples and open problems and, at the same time, essential references to the classics of philosophy, so as to allow non-specialists to understand the terms and analysis procedures characterizing the discipline. Its result is a wide-ranging overview of the issued tackled by ontology, with a particular focus on the most relevant problems of contemporary debate (categorial taxonomies, nonexistent objects, case studies of ontological debates in specific fields of knowledge).

Ontological Commitment

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Author : Richard H. Severens
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974

Ontological Commitment written by Richard H. Severens and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Ontology categories.

Ontological Commitment Quantification And Ontology

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Author : Leroy Nelson Meyer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975

Ontological Commitment Quantification And Ontology written by Leroy Nelson Meyer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Ontology categories.

A Consideration Of Some Theories Of Ontological Commitment

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Author : Michael Goldman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969

A Consideration Of Some Theories Of Ontological Commitment written by Michael Goldman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Ontology categories.

Ontological Commitment Revisited

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Author : Jesús Padilla Gálvez
language : en
Publisher: de Gruyter
Release Date : 2021

Ontological Commitment Revisited written by Jesús Padilla Gálvez and has been published by de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Philosophy categories.

Ontology deals with the question of whether something is real or exists. Ontological commitment implies that each theory specifies the type of entities that form its basic components. There are theories that admit the existence of universals while o

Indispensable Ontological Commitments

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Author : Patrick Dieveney
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006

Indispensable Ontological Commitments written by Patrick Dieveney and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with categories.

Following Quine, some philosophers argue that insofar as we accept our best scientific theories as true, we are committed to the existence of the things these theories say 'there are'. And, we determine what things our theories say 'there are' by looking to the objects required to satisfy the existentially quantified sentences of these theories. In other words, existential quantification is the mark of ontological commitment. In my dissertation, I examine this relationship between quantification and ontology. Building on work from Peter Geach and Van McGee, I develop an account of quantification, what I call"unrestricted substitutional quantification". I argue that this is not only the appropriate understanding of the quantifiers, but it also allows for a robust science of ontology. With this understanding of the quantifiers, I consider the role they play in determining our ontological commitments by examining the paradigm example of this role--the Quine-Putnam Indispensability Argument. My analysis of the Quine-Putnam Indispensability Argument focuses on two central points. First, I argue that standard formulations of the argument include an unnecessary premise. Eliminating this superfluous premise significantly strengthens the argument as it has drawn a great deal of criticism. Second, the resulting argument serves as a blueprint for Quinean appeals to existential quantification in determining our ontological commitments. As a result, the argument helps clarify a necessary condition on such appeals. We are only committed to the objects required to satisfy existentially quantified sentences in formalizations of our accepted theories provided they occur in appropriate formalizations of the theories. Hence, appealing to existential quantification to determine ontological commitments requires an account of 'appropriateness' for formalizations. I conclude by offering such an account by drawing on work from Hartry Field, Mark Colyvan, and other areas of study (e.g., Kantian Ethics) where a similar problem of occurs.