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A defense of Sommers

✍ Scribed by Charles Sayward

Book ID: 104781594
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 1976
Tongue: English
Weight: 194 KB
Volume: 29
Category: Article
ISSN: 0031-8116
DOI: 10.1007/bf00473444

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✦ Synopsis

Recently Jon Fjeld has criticized Fred Sommers' type theory. 1 Fjeld begins his paper by nicely outlining the reasons other criticisms of Sommers have failed. Fjeld's own criticism avoids these pitfalls, but, for all that, it also is mistaken. At least that is what I shall argue.

Fjeld concentrates his attack on these two theses which are part of Sommers' theory:

Thesis 1: Every individual belongs to some type. Thesis 2: Every category is identical with a union of types included in it.

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