Qualitative properties and relations
- Plate, Jan Facoltà di comunicazione, cultura e società, Università della Svizzera italiana, Svizzera
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10.08.2021
Published in:
- Philosophical studies. - Springer. - 2022, vol. 179, p. 1297–1322
English
This paper is concerned with two concepts of qualitativeness that apply to intensional entities (i.e., properties, relations, and states of affairs). I propose an account of pure qualitativeness that largely follows the traditional understanding established by Carnap, and try to shed light on its ontological presuppositions. On this account, an intensional entity is purely qualitative iff it does not ‘involve’ any particular (i.e., anything that is not an intensional entity). An alternative notion of qualitativeness—which I propose to refer to as a concept of strict qualitativeness— has recently been introduced by Chad Carmichael. However, Carmichael’s definition presupposes a highly fine-grained conception of properties and relations. To eliminate this presupposition, I tentatively suggest a different definition that rests on a concept of perspicuous denotation. In the penultimate section, both concepts of qualitativeness are put to work in distinguishing between different ‘grades’ of qualitative discriminability.
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- English
- Classification
- Philosophy, psychology
- License
- CC BY
- Open access status
- hybrid
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- RERO DOC 333705
- DOI 10.1007/s11098-021-01708-y
- ARK ark:/12658/srd1319211
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- https://n2t.net/ark:/12658/srd1319211
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