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Otto said that I am a fool. Sententialism, Indexicals, and Kaplanian Monsters

Otto said that I am a fool. Sententialism, Indexicals, and Kaplanian Monsters
Otto said that I am a fool. Sententialism, Indexicals, and Kaplanian Monsters
According to sententialism,

(1) Otto said that I am a fool

expresses the holding of a relation between Otto and the sentence ‘I am a fool’. Sententialism is generally considered doomed but I will show that a suitably developed sententialist account can surmount the many objections that have been raised. I will also show how important it is to have a fairer attitude toward sententialism. For if sententialist accounts are recognised as real options, it should also be recognised that the conclusion, drawn by many, that sentences such as (1) force us to introduce Kaplanian monsters, is unwarranted.
0279-0750
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Felappi, Giulia
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Felappi, Giulia
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Felappi, Giulia (2021) Otto said that I am a fool. Sententialism, Indexicals, and Kaplanian Monsters. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 102 (2), 172-191. (doi:10.1111/papq.12343).

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According to sententialism,

(1) Otto said that I am a fool

expresses the holding of a relation between Otto and the sentence ‘I am a fool’. Sententialism is generally considered doomed but I will show that a suitably developed sententialist account can surmount the many objections that have been raised. I will also show how important it is to have a fairer attitude toward sententialism. For if sententialist accounts are recognised as real options, it should also be recognised that the conclusion, drawn by many, that sentences such as (1) force us to introduce Kaplanian monsters, is unwarranted.

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Accepted/In Press date: 29 January 2021
e-pub ahead of print date: 2 March 2021
Published date: June 2021
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Local EPrints ID: 447516
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/447516
DOI: doi:10.1111/papq.12343
ISSN: 0279-0750
PURE UUID: 3a1e9cea-f0aa-4c5e-b373-e3a7399fe9d5
ORCID for Giulia Felappi: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-0110-6371

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Date deposited: 15 Mar 2021 17:30
Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 06:20

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