This is not an indexical concept! A note on Robert Hanna's theory of natural kind concepts

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Autor(a) principal: Ernesto Perini Frizzera da Mota Santos
Data de Publicação: 2017
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: por
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Resumo: According to Robert Hanna, natural kind conceptsconcepts have an indexical component, represented by 'THIS BODY‘, that refers to the totality of matter found in any given possible world, and an attributive component, made up of phenomenological identifying features. I will argue that there is no place for indexicals in Hanna‘s theory. Initially, demonstratives don't select worlds, as his theory requires. Moreover, even as we try to amend his theory, either giving a proper reference to demonstratives or postulating the indexical reference to worlds by other linguistic mechanisms, we still can‘t find a place for indexicals. The reason is that the satisfactional semantics of general terms, needed to vindicate his approach of modalities as evaluated at a rationally shaped modal space, requires no indexical component.
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spelling 2022-01-14T15:30:34Z2022-01-14T15:30:34Z2017-03-1011146571677-163Xhttp://hdl.handle.net/1843/39094https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5805-5985According to Robert Hanna, natural kind conceptsconcepts have an indexical component, represented by 'THIS BODY‘, that refers to the totality of matter found in any given possible world, and an attributive component, made up of phenomenological identifying features. I will argue that there is no place for indexicals in Hanna‘s theory. Initially, demonstratives don't select worlds, as his theory requires. Moreover, even as we try to amend his theory, either giving a proper reference to demonstratives or postulating the indexical reference to worlds by other linguistic mechanisms, we still can‘t find a place for indexicals. The reason is that the satisfactional semantics of general terms, needed to vindicate his approach of modalities as evaluated at a rationally shaped modal space, requires no indexical component.Segundo Robert Hanna, conceitos para tipos naturais têm um componente indexical, representado por 'ESTE CORPO‘, que se refere à totalidade de matéria encontrada num dado mundo possível, e um componente atributivo, feito de traços fenomenológicos identificadores. Neste artigo, argumentarei que não há lugar para indexicais na teoria de Hanna. Em primeiro lugar, pronomes demonstrativos não selecionam mundos, como sua teoria exige. Além disto, mesmo se tentarmos corrigir sua teoria, quer postulando uma referência adequada para demonstrativos, quer considerando a seleçãoindexicalde mundos por outros mecanismos linguísticos, ainda não conseguimos encontrar um lugar adequado para indexicais. A razão é que a semântica satisfacional para termos gerais, necessária para sua abordagem do espaço modal racionalmente delineado, não requer indexicais.porUniversidade Federal de Minas GeraisUFMGBrasilFAF - DEPARTAMENTO DE FILOSOFIAKant e-PrintsModalidade (Linguística)Filosofia modernaLinguagem FilosofiaModalityIndexicalTwo-dimensional semanticsNatural kind conceptsThis is not an indexical concept! 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title This is not an indexical concept! A note on Robert Hanna's theory of natural kind concepts
spellingShingle This is not an indexical concept! A note on Robert Hanna's theory of natural kind concepts
Ernesto Perini Frizzera da Mota Santos
Modality
Indexical
Two-dimensional semantics
Natural kind concepts
Modalidade (Linguística)
Filosofia moderna
Linguagem Filosofia
title_short This is not an indexical concept! A note on Robert Hanna's theory of natural kind concepts
title_full This is not an indexical concept! A note on Robert Hanna's theory of natural kind concepts
title_fullStr This is not an indexical concept! A note on Robert Hanna's theory of natural kind concepts
title_full_unstemmed This is not an indexical concept! A note on Robert Hanna's theory of natural kind concepts
title_sort This is not an indexical concept! A note on Robert Hanna's theory of natural kind concepts
author Ernesto Perini Frizzera da Mota Santos
author_facet Ernesto Perini Frizzera da Mota Santos
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Ernesto Perini Frizzera da Mota Santos
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Modality
Indexical
Two-dimensional semantics
Natural kind concepts
topic Modality
Indexical
Two-dimensional semantics
Natural kind concepts
Modalidade (Linguística)
Filosofia moderna
Linguagem Filosofia
dc.subject.other.pt_BR.fl_str_mv Modalidade (Linguística)
Filosofia moderna
Linguagem Filosofia
description According to Robert Hanna, natural kind conceptsconcepts have an indexical component, represented by 'THIS BODY‘, that refers to the totality of matter found in any given possible world, and an attributive component, made up of phenomenological identifying features. I will argue that there is no place for indexicals in Hanna‘s theory. Initially, demonstratives don't select worlds, as his theory requires. Moreover, even as we try to amend his theory, either giving a proper reference to demonstratives or postulating the indexical reference to worlds by other linguistic mechanisms, we still can‘t find a place for indexicals. The reason is that the satisfactional semantics of general terms, needed to vindicate his approach of modalities as evaluated at a rationally shaped modal space, requires no indexical component.
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