Hewitt, S orcid.org/0000-0003-2720-4428 (2018) Rosy with Sider? The case of the Metaphysical Liar. Journal of Philosophical Logic, 47 (5). pp. 787-801. ISSN 0022-3611
Abstract
An important trend in contemporary metaphysics denies that the structure of natural language is an important datum for investigating fundamental structure. Ted Sider proceeds on this basis to propose a metaphysical semantics for natural language. Within this framework he argues that natural language and a fundamental, ‘jointcarving’, language could be subject to distinct logics. Developing an argument of Hartry Field’s, I show that Sider’s preferred option of fundamental classicality combined with non-fundamental non-classicality trivialises within the framework of Siderian metaphysical semantics. The position can be saved only by revising key claims about truth and metaphysical semantics. This has serious implications for methdology in the metaphysics of logic.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2017. This article is an open access publication. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
Keywords: | Metaphysics of logic; Paradox; Nonclassical logic; Dialetheism; Truth; Sider |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (Leeds) > School of Philosophy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 28 Jul 2017 11:29 |
Last Modified: | 23 Jun 2023 22:33 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Springer Verlag |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/s10992-017-9449-7 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:119545 |
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