What we assume to be true, I shall argue, are cases of name placement, i.e. cases in which an object or a kind of object is given a name. What I have in mind are not baptisms, or not only. Introductions, giving an example, and occasionally many other uses of a name can do. Names are tools to investigate the nature of things and by themselves names do not carry any, though a practice in using them carries with it information. If a proper name is attributed to an object, the name ideally distinguishes it from anything else; if a predicative name is applied to an object, it potentially groups it together with other objects and distinguishes the group from other groups. It is uses of a name for the same object or kind of object that develop and transmit concepts and conceptions of the object and the kind.
Leonardi P. (2014). Valueless Truth. Ginevra : University of Geneva,.
Valueless Truth
LEONARDI, PAOLO
2014
Abstract
What we assume to be true, I shall argue, are cases of name placement, i.e. cases in which an object or a kind of object is given a name. What I have in mind are not baptisms, or not only. Introductions, giving an example, and occasionally many other uses of a name can do. Names are tools to investigate the nature of things and by themselves names do not carry any, though a practice in using them carries with it information. If a proper name is attributed to an object, the name ideally distinguishes it from anything else; if a predicative name is applied to an object, it potentially groups it together with other objects and distinguishes the group from other groups. It is uses of a name for the same object or kind of object that develop and transmit concepts and conceptions of the object and the kind.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
