Vittorio Morato
Other conceptions of sentences might be available according to which such
entities are necessarily abstract entities, that exist independently on the exis-
tence of their utterances and this because they exist already once a primitive
vocabulary and syntactic rules for a language are given. This position, however,
does not, by itself, exclude counter-examples like those presented above in the
case the primitive vocabulary or the formation rules are, in turn, contingently
existing entities or ontologically dependent on contingently existing entities8.
If we reason in strict analogy with what happens in the formal semantics for
modal logics, however, the basic elements of a language may be taken as al-
ready given \before" the various possible worlds enter the play; the existence
of a language (and hence of sentences) could then be seen as some sort of a
\transcendental condition" of the logic and therefore as independent on any
contingency represented by what is going on within worlds.
This transcendental condition is what I mean.
ReplyDeleteT finds itself to be logically inevitable in the sense of this transendental condition.