The existential import of categorical propositions.

2012 ◽  
pp. 210-248
Author(s):  
John Neville Keynes
Keyword(s):  
Existential Import

A Reply to Mr. Uchenko Emphasizing the Existential Import of Propositions

The Monist ◽  
1929 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. S. C. Northrop ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Existential Import

scholarly journals On Vendler’s freedom of choice

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. e460
Author(s):  
Ana Clara Polakof
Keyword(s):  
Free Choice ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Speech Act Theory ◽  
Alternative Semantics ◽  
Freedom Of Choice ◽  
Proper Understanding ◽  
Existential Import ◽  
The One ◽  
Short Essay

In this short essay, we will provide some contemporary remarks to Vendler (1962 and 1974). We will propose that his characterization of the Free Choice Item any can be properly explained if we take into account an alternative semantics framework. We will assume with Menéndez-Benito (2010) that it is a universal indeterminate pronoun, and with Aloni (2007) that it involves an exhaustification operator to explain its behavior. We will show that, if we take into account this approach, we will be able to explain what Vendler called freedom of choice, lack of existential import, lawlike propositions, among other characteristics. In addition, we will try to do some linguistics in philosophy, and try to explain how a proper understanding of FCI may help to better understand some reference related problems. Finally, we will show that if we take into account a speech act theory, as the one proposed by Searle (1985), we may account for some of the FCI particular behavior with regard to free choice.

scholarly journals Kant on Existential Import

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto Vanzo
Keyword(s):  
Formal Logic ◽  
Square Of Opposition ◽  
Standard Interpretation ◽  
Quantification Theory ◽  
Traditional Logic ◽  
Existential Import ◽  
Modern Standard

AbstractThis article reconstructs Kant's view on the existential import of categorical sentences. Kant is widely taken to have held that affirmative sentences (theAandIsentences of the traditional square of opposition) have existential import, whereas negative sentences (EandO) lack existential import. The article challenges this standard interpretation. It is argued that Kant ascribes existential import only to some affirmative synthetic sentences. However, the reasons for this do not fall within the remit of Kant's formal logic. Unlike traditional logic and modern standard quantification theory, Kant's formal logic is free from existential commitments.

scholarly journals Aristotle and Łukasiewicz on Existential Import

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 535-544 ◽  
Author(s):  
STEPHEN READ
Keyword(s):  
Square Of Opposition ◽  
Existential Import ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Faithful Interpretation

ABSTRACT:Jan Łukasiewicz's treatise on Aristotle's Syllogistic, published in the 1950s, has been very influential in framing the contemporary understanding of Aristotle's logical systems. However, Łukasiewicz's interpretation is based on a number of tendentious claims, not least, on the claim that the syllogistic was intended to apply only to nonempty terms. I show that this interpretation is not true to Aristotle's text and that a more coherent and faithful interpretation admits empty terms while maintaining all the relations of the traditional square of opposition.

scholarly journals THE EXISTENTIAL IMPORT OF PROPOSITIONS

Mind ◽  
1905 ◽  
Vol XIV (4) ◽  
pp. 578-580
Author(s):  
HUGH MACCOLL
Keyword(s):  
Existential Import

Existential Import and Perceptual Judgments

1969 ◽  
Vol 66 (13) ◽  
pp. 403
Author(s):  
Joseph Margolis
Keyword(s):  
Perceptual Judgments ◽  
Existential Import

The Christian God of Philosophy

1965 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 417-426
Author(s):  
James W. Keating
Keyword(s):  
Christian Philosophy ◽  
Existential Import ◽  
Proper Name

For over thirty years, Gilson and others have defended the thesis that “Christian philosophy” is not only a possibility, but also an actuality. This position has had many critics and the debate continues to this day. It appears, however, that Gilson has never been challenged on a subsidiary, but more radical, thesis. It is startling to find that, while the phrase “Christian philosophy” has been debated for decades, Gilson's peculiar and strained usage of the much more common phrase, “the Christian God,” has gone unchallenged, apparently even unnoticed. As the term is generally understood, the Christian God is the Triune, the Incarnate God, the Redeemer of mankind as well as the Creator of all things. Gilson, of course, would readily admit all of this. But it is his contention, perhaps a unique one, that we can speak of the Christian God of philosophy as well as of revealed theology. The former, the Christian God of metaphysics, is born of a recognition of the existential import of God's proper name as He revealed it to Moses.

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