Heil, John
Paul B. Freeland Professor of Philosophy, Davidson College, North Carolina, and Professor of Philosophy, Monash University, Australia
Print publication date: 2003 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-925974-8
doi:10.1093/0199259747.003.0003
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-925974-8
doi:10.1093/0199259747.003.0003
Chapter 3 Predicates and Properties
Realists take truth seriously, but what does realism require? Misguided commitment to a certain principle, (
), has led philosophers down the garden path. According to () predicates applying truly to objects do so by virtue of naming properties possessed by those objects and by every object to which they would apply. I provide reasons to reject () and thus to forego the hierarchical worldview () apparently implies.
Keywords: designate, hierarchical, higher-level, lower-level, name, object, Picture Theory, predicate, property, realism, worldview
), has led philosophers down the garden path. According to () predicates applying truly to objects do so by virtue of naming properties possessed by those objects and by every object to which they would apply. I provide reasons to reject () and thus to forego the hierarchical worldview () apparently implies.Keywords: designate, hierarchical, higher-level, lower-level, name, object, Picture Theory, predicate, property, realism, worldview
doi:10.1093/0199259747.003.0003
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