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Metaphysica
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Volume 15: Issue 1

Sider’s Third Realm

Jonah P. B. Goldwater 1
  • 1 Department of Philosophy, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL USA
Jonah P. B. Goldwater
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1515/mp-2014-0007
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Published online:
01 Feb 2014

Abstract

argues it is not only predicates that carve reality at its joints, but expressions of any logical or grammatical category – including quantifiers, operators, and sentential connectives. Even so, he denies these expressions pick out entities in the world; instead, they only represent the world’s “structure”. I argue that this distinction is not viable, and that Sider’s ambitious programme requires an exotic ontology – and even a Fregean “third realm” – of logical entities.

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Published Online:
2014-02-01
Published in Print:
2014-04-01

Citation Information: 
Metaphysica, Volume 15, Issue 1, Pages 99–112, eISSN 1874-6373, ISSN 1437-2053, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/mp-2014-0007.

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