Impossible individuals as necessarily empty individual concepts

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030534868" target="_blank" >https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030534868</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53487-5_9" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-030-53487-5_9</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Impossible individuals as necessarily empty individual concepts
Original language description
We talk about 'impossible objects' in many areas, ranging from empirical and non-empirical theories to the realms of fiction, myth and folklore: a mathematical pendulum, a perfect market, the set of all sets that are not members of themselves, Kafka's Gregor Samsa, Pegasus, The Puss in the Boots, and so forth. This paper puts forward a hyperintensional account of a special case of impossible objects, so-called 'impossible individuals'. Our (broadly Fregean) proposal is to identify 'impossible individuals' with necessarily empty individual concepts. The main goal of the paper is to develop a method that enables us to discover inconsistencies in specifications of individual concepts and thus prove that such concepts could not possibly be matched by an extension (an individual). Furthermore, this approach allows for a fine-grained individuation of impossible individuals. Fine-graining will not be explored in the present paper, but its very possibility adds to the overall plausibility of the present account.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
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/GA18-23891S" target="_blank" >GA18-23891S: Hyperintensional Reasoning over Natural Language Texts</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
Logic in High Definition: Trends in Logic (Studia Logica Library)
ISBN
978-3-030-53486-8
Number of pages of the result
26
Pages from-to
177-202
Number of pages of the book
243
Publisher name
Springer
Place of publication
Switzerland
UT code for WoS chapter
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