Iterated privation and positive predication

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jal.2017.12.004" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jal.2017.12.004</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jal.2017.12.004" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.jal.2017.12.004</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Iterated privation and positive predication

Original language description

The standard rule of single privative modification replaces privative modifi-ers by Boolean negation. This rule is valid, for sure, but also simplistic. If an individual a instantiates the privatively modified property (MF) then it is true that a instantiates the property of not being an F, but the rule fails to express the fact that the properties (MF) and F have something in common. We replace Boolean negation by property negation, enabling us to operate on contrary rather than contradictory properties. To this end, we apply our the-ory of intensional essentialism, which operates on properties (intensions) rather than their extensions. We argue that each property F is necessarily associated with an essence, which is the set of the so-called requisites of F that jointly define F. Privation deprives F of some but not all of its requisites, replacing them by their contradictories. We show that properties formed from iterated privatives, such as being an imaginary fake banknote, give rise to a trifurcation of cases between returning to the original root property or to a property contrary to it or being semantically undecidable for want of further information. In order to determine which of the three forks the bear-ers of particular instances of multiply modified properties land upon we must examine the requisites, both of unmodified and modified properties. Requisites underpin our presuppositional theory of positive predication. Whereas privation is about being deprived of certain properties, the assign-ment of requisites to properties makes positive predication possible, which is the predication of properties the bearers must have because they have a cer-tain property formed by means of privation.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA15-13277S" target="_blank" >GA15-13277S: Hyperintensional logic for natural language analysis</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Applied Logic

ISSN

1570-8683

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

25

Issue of the periodical within the volume

SI

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

24

Pages from-to

48-71

UT code for WoS article

000423246400004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85037589415