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- Title
Two aspects of propositional unity.
- Authors
Ostertag, Gary
- Abstract
The paper builds upon familiar arguments against identifying the proposition thatBrutus stabbed Caesarwith a given sequence containing Brutus, Caesar, and thestabsrelation. It identifies a further problem, one that affects not only traditional Russellian accounts of propositions, but also the recent act-theoretic approach championed by Scott Soames and Peter Hanks. The problem is that there is no clear content to the idea that the pair < Brutus, Caesar> instantiates thestabsrelation. It is argued that this further problem presents a decisive objection to the act-theoretic approach to propositions.
- Subjects
PROPOSITION (Logic); COGNITIVE development research; PREDICATE (Logic); SOAMES, Scott; HANKS, Peter
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 2013, Vol 43, Issue 5/6, p518
- ISSN
0045-5091
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/00455091.2013.870725