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Sentences Apparently About Composite Objects: True Even Without Composite Objects by Savvas Ioannou is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Sentences Apparently About Composite Objects: True Even Without Composite Objects about?
A compositional nihilist believes that the only objects that exist are simples. However, a non-nihilist believes in the existence of composite objects and challenges the nihilist to explain why there are true sentences about chairs, tables, etc., if composite objects do not exist. Different nihilist views have been suggested to explain this (the paraphrase strategy and the truthmaker theory), but I believe that they are unsuccessful (either they do not successfully paraphrase every sentence apparently about composite objects, or they are not precise about the truthmakers of those sentences). I will suggest that a new truthmaker theory, which uses resources from Cameron's truthmaker theory and van Inwagen's paraphrase strategy, can give such an explanation and does not face the problems of other theories. Therefore, we have a good reason to accept this truthmaker theory as the best nihilist way to accommodate sentences apparently about composite objects.
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It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Arts and Humanities.
- Author
- Savvas Ioannou
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)