Elementarism, independence, and ontology

✍ Scribed by Herbert Hochberg

• Book ID: 104768932
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1961
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 513 KB
• Volume: 12
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0031-8116
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00420770

✦ Synopsis

Elementarism, Independence, and Ontology

by HERBERT HOCHBERG OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ELEMENTARISM is the thesis that all undefined predicates of an improved (ideal) language are of the first type? Some philosophers adhere to an explication of ontology, (O1), whereby the answer to the question "What exists?" is provided by the referents of the undefined descriptive (non-logical) terms of one's (implicit or explicit) ideal language. Proponents of (O1) would then take the thesis of elementarism to assert the nonexistence of properties of properties. Recently Professor Bergmann has claimed that "the