(In Some Fictions) Everything is True

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  • Luis Estrada González National Autonomous University of Mexico

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/ajl.v15i2.4856

Abstract

I defend the idea that there are universal fictions, and that the Routley-Deutsch-Kapsner way of generating them – namely, with a story including deliberately and explicitly the proposition Everything is true – is still the best one. I reconstruct Wildman and Folde’s Finean criticisms to universal fictions a la Routley-Deutsch-Kapsner based on the idea that the universal quantifier in such fictions may not target the intended range of quantification, that is, all propositions. I show that Wildman and Folde’s argument does not succeed, for they fail to show that every universal sentence has to be understood as involving a restricted quantifier.

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Author Biography

Luis Estrada González , National Autonomous University of Mexico

Associate Professor, Institute for Philosophical Research

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Published

2018-07-03 — Updated on 2023-04-12

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