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Soleimani M, Hosseini D. Neo-Fregean Metaontology based on Fregean Metaontology. jpt 2023; 3 (2) :161-185
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1- Department of Philosophy and Logic, Faculty of Humanities, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
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Neo-Fregean metaontology is one of the most controversial metaontologies in recent decades. Regarding this metaontology as a deflationary metaontology such as quantifier-variance or maximalism prevails nowadays. But, if we consider Frege's views and the consequent metaontology, it will be obvious that there isn’t any relation between Fregean metaontology and deflationary metaontologies. Hence, interpreting neo-Fregean metaontology in the light of Fregean metaontology categorizes it in the class of serious metaontologies. In this reading, the crucial point is that the metaontological language is the logical core of natural language rather than mere natural language. Notwithstanding that this reading is consistent, it has implications for neo-Fregean methodology, namely, that neo-Fregean metaontology's function is metaphysical - in the determination of the category of abstract objects - and epistemological - in justification of our knowledge about these objects – but not ontological.
Keywords: Neo-Fregean Metaontology, Fregean Metaontology, Easy Metaontologies, Natural Language Logical Core
Article Type: Original Research |
Subject:
Metaphysics (Analytical)
Received: 2023/04/4 | Accepted: 2023/05/29 | Published: 2023/06/19
Received: 2023/04/4 | Accepted: 2023/05/29 | Published: 2023/06/19
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