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Hofweber’s Nominalist Naturalism

, Samuels R, Shapiro S
Published in Springer
2022
Volume: 339
   
Pages: 31 - 62
Abstract

In this paper, we outline and critically evaluate Thomas Hofweber’s solution to a semantic puzzle he calls Frege’s Other Puzzle. After sketching the Puzzle and two traditional responses to it—the Substantival Strategy and the Adjectival Strategy—we outline Hofweber’s proposed version of Adjectivalism. We argue that two key components—the syntactic and semantic components—of Hofweber’s analysis both suffer from serious empirical difficulties. Ultimately, this suggests that an altogether different solution to Frege’s Other Puzzle is required.

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JournalData powered by TypesetBoston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
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