Journal article
Russellian Facts About the Slingshot
Axiomathes : quaderni del Centro studi per la filosofia mitteleuropea, Vol.24(4), pp.533-547
12/01/2014
DOI: 10.1007/s10516-014-9231-1
Abstract
The so-called “Slingshot” argument purports to show that an ontology of facts is untenable. In this paper, we address a minimal slingshot restricted to an ontology of physical facts as truth-makers for empirical physical statements. Accepting that logical matters have no bearing on the physical facts that are truth-makers for empirical physical statements and that objects are themselves constituents of such facts, our minimal slingshot argument purportedly shows that any two physical statements with empirical content are made true by one and the same fact. It is well-known that Russell’s theory of descriptions may be employed to reveal a scope fallacy in the slingshot argument. This paper reveals that there is a quite independent Russellian criticism of the slingshot argument based on the thesis that facts are structured entities.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Russellian Facts About the Slingshot
- Creators
- Gregory Landini - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Axiomathes : quaderni del Centro studi per la filosofia mitteleuropea, Vol.24(4), pp.533-547
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- DOI
- 10.1007/s10516-014-9231-1
- ISSN
- 1122-1151
- eISSN
- 1572-8390
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/01/2014
- Academic Unit
- Philosophy
- Record Identifier
- 9984397182502771
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