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- Title
Content Extraction, Ontological Mootness and Nominalism: Difficulties on the Easy Road.
- Authors
Jandrić, Andrej
- Abstract
In his latest book Aboutness, Stephen Yablo has proposed a new 'easy road' nominalist strategy: instead of engaging in the hard work of paraphrasing a scientific theory which presupposes numbers in a nominalistically acceptable way, nominalists are, according to Yablo, entitled to accept the theory as true, while rejecting the existence of numbers, if from the theory's content the presupposition that there are numbers can be subtracted away, yielding thus a number-free content remainder. Perfect extricability, i.e. extricability in every possible world, of the presupposition that there are numbers from any content apparently involving them is, in Yablo's view, sufficient to make the existence of numbers moot. In this paper I will argue that perfect extricability fails as a criterion of ontological mootness.
- Subjects
NOMINALISM; PARAPHRASE; ROADS
- Publication
Erkenntnis, 2022, Vol 87, Issue 5, p2329
- ISSN
0165-0106
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10670-020-00304-6