Prāsaṅgika’s Semantic Nominalism: Reality is Linguistic Concept

Linguistic Explanation and ‘ Psychological Reality ’

Methodological questions concerning Chomsky’s generative approach to linguistics have been debated without consensus. The status of linguistics as psychology, the psychological reality of grammars, the character of tacit knowledge and the role of intuitions as data remain heatedly disputed today. I argue that the recalcitrance of these disputes is symptomatic of deep misunderstandings. I focus ...

Boltzmann's Concept of Reality

In this article we describe and analyze the concept of reality developed by the Austrian theoretical physicist Ludwig Boltzmann. It is our thesis that Boltzmann was fully aware that reality could, and actually was, described by different points of view. In spite of this, Boltzmann did not renounce the idea that reality is real. We also discuss his main motivations to be strongly involved with p...

Concept Formation in Linguistic Ontologies

Getting Realistic about Nominalism

In this paper I examine critically the relationship between the realist and nominalist views of abstract objects. I begin by pointing out some differences between the usage of existential statements in metaphysics and the usage of such statements in disciplines outside of philosophy. Then I propose an account of existence that captures the characteristic intuitions underlying the latter kind of...

Schizoaffective disorder: concept and reality.

A wide variety of concepts have been proposed to account for schizoaffective psychoses. Presenting a mixture of schizophrenic and affective symptoms, these psychoses have long defied classification in the usual scheme of the two major diagnostic categories, schizophrenia and major affective disorder. Empirical findings are often contradictory, and have sometimes supported the classification of ...