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URL:https://www.ub.edu/grc_logos/activities/ontological-commitment-a-fitti
 ng-attitude-account/
SUMMARY:Ontological Commitment: A Fitting Attitude Account
DESCRIPTION:To a first approximation\, ontology is concerned with what exis
 ts\, metaontology with what it means to say that something exists. So unde
 rstood\, metaontology has been dominated by three views: (i) existence as 
 a substantive first-order property that some things have and some do not\,
  (ii) existence as a formal first-order property that everything has\, and
  (iii) existence as a second-order property of existents&rsquo\; distincti
 ve properties. Each of these faces well-documented difficulties. In this &
 nbsp\;talk \, I want to expound a fourth theoretical option\, which unfort
 unately has remained &lsquo\;under the radar.&rsquo\; This is Franz Brenta
 no&rsquo\;s view\, according to which to say that X exists is not to attri
 bute a property at all (first- or second-order)\, but to say that the corr
 ect attitude to take toward X is that of accepting or believing in it.&nbs
 p\;
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
LOCATION:Seminari de Filosofia UB
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