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Applications of Neutrality
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Advantages of the neutrality approach to natural languages are sketched. Paradigmatic ontological debates are described (about entities such as God or Bigfoot), and it is shown how the neutral approach can accommodate requirements on such debates, such as both parties understanding the claims of the other parties but disagreeing on the truth values of certain sentences that are nevertheless understood in common. There are also puzzles about how individuals are supposed to think about particular nonexistent beings over time, or how more than one individual can think about the same nonexistent being. It’s shown how the neutralist approach can accommodate this by focusing, in particular, on Geach’s Hob-Nob puzzle. Pretense approaches to fictional talk are undermined by showing that they prevent expression of needed claims we make about entities.
Title: Applications of Neutrality
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Advantages of the neutrality approach to natural languages are sketched.
Paradigmatic ontological debates are described (about entities such as God or Bigfoot), and it is shown how the neutral approach can accommodate requirements on such debates, such as both parties understanding the claims of the other parties but disagreeing on the truth values of certain sentences that are nevertheless understood in common.
There are also puzzles about how individuals are supposed to think about particular nonexistent beings over time, or how more than one individual can think about the same nonexistent being.
It’s shown how the neutralist approach can accommodate this by focusing, in particular, on Geach’s Hob-Nob puzzle.
Pretense approaches to fictional talk are undermined by showing that they prevent expression of needed claims we make about entities.
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