Deflating Existential Consequence by Jody Azzouni, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Deflating Existential Consequence by Jody Azzouni, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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Deflating Existential Consequence by Jody Azzouni, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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If we must take mathematical statements to be true, must we also believe in the existence of abstracta eternal invisible mathematical objects accessible only by the power of pure thought? Jody Azzouni says no, and he claims that the way to escape such commitments is to accept (as an essentialpart of scientific doctrine) true statements which are about objects that don't exist in any sense at all. Azzouni illustrates what the metaphysical landscape looks like once we avoid a militant Realism which forces our commitment to anything that our theories quantify. Escaping metaphysical straitjackets (such as the correspondence theory of truth), while retaining the insight that some truths areabout objects that do exist, Azzouni says that we can sort scientifically-given objects into two categories: ones which exist, and to which we forge instrumental access in order to learn their properties, and ones which do not, that is, which are made up in exactly the same sense that fictionalobjects are. He offers as a case study a small portion of Newtonian physics, and one result of his classification of its ontological commitments, is that it does not commit us to absolute space and time. | Deflating Existential Consequence by Jody Azzouni, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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