Essence as a Modality: A Proof-Theoretic and Nominalist Analysis

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Result on the web
<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3521354.0021.007" target="_blank" >http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3521354.0021.007</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/phimp.3521354.0021.007" target="_blank" >10.3998/phimp.3521354.0021.007</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Essence as a Modality: A Proof-Theoretic and Nominalist Analysis
Original language description
Inquiry into the metaphysics of essence tends to be pursued in a realist and model-theoretic spirit, in the sense that metaphysical vocabulary is used in a metalanguage to model truth conditions for the object-language use of essentialist vocabulary. This essay adapts recent developments in proof-theoretic semantics to provide a nominalist analysis for a variety of essentialist vocabularies. A metalanguage employing explanatory inferences is used to individuate introduction and elimination rules for atomic sentences. The object-language assertion of sentences concerning essences are then interpreted as devices for marking off structural features of the explanatory inferences that, under a given interpretation, constitute the contents of the atoms of the language. On this proposal object-language essentialist vocabulary is mentioned in a proof-theoretic metalanguage that uses a vocabulary of explanation. The result is a nominalist interpretation of essence as a modality, understood in the grammatical sense as a modification of the copula, and a view of metaphysical inquiry that is closely connected to the explanatory commitments present in first-order inquiry into things like sets, chemicals, and organisms.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project
<a href="/en/project/GF17-33808L" target="_blank" >GF17-33808L: Inferentialism and collective intentionality</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

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