Sometimes Some Things Don’t (Really) Exist: Pragmatic Meinongism and the Referential Sub-Problem of Negative Existentials

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Lenny Clapp

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Para resolver el sub-problema referencial de los existenciales negativos, uno debe explicar por que interpretamos usos de, por ejemplo, “Sherlock Holmes no existe” como diciendo algo coherente e intuitivamente verdadero, aunque el hablante intenta referirse a algo. El meinongismo pragmático resuelve este problema al permitir que “no existe” sea pragmáticamente modulado para expresar un sentido inclusivo según el cual puede ser satisfecho por algo. En este trabajo establezco tres puntos en defensa del meinongismo pragmático: (1) es superior a las soluciones inspiradas por Russell, (ii) es apoyado por evidencia independiente de modulación pragmática, y (iii) no requiere compromisos ontológicos dudosos.

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Clapp, L. (2020). Sometimes Some Things Don’t (Really) Exist: Pragmatic Meinongism and the Referential Sub-Problem of Negative Existentials. Crítica. Revista Hispanoamericana De Filosofía, 52(154), 101–127. https://doi.org/10.22201/iifs.18704905e.2020.1176

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