More aboutness in imagination
- In Berto's logic for aboutness in imagination, the output content of an imaginative episode must be part of the initial content of the episode (Berto, Philos Stud 175:1871–1886, 2018). This condition predicts expressions of perfectly legitimate imaginative episodes to be false. Thus, this condition is too strict. Relaxing the condition to correctly model these cases requires to consider a language with predicates and constants. The paper extends Berto's semantics for aboutness in imagination to a semantics for such a language. The new semantics models contents of formulas along the lines of Hawke's issue-based theory of topics (Hawke, Australas J Philos 96:697–723, 2017), while remaining faithful to the (in)validities discussed by Berto. Several relations between issues and topics are defined, which allow to overcome shortcomings of Hawke's initial framework. These relations are then discussed with respect to their usefulness in the truth condition for the imagination operator.
| Author: | Christopher BaduraORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:294-91169 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10992-020-09575-4 |
| Parent Title (English): | Journal of philosophical logic |
| Publisher: | Springer Science + Business Media B.V. |
| Place of publication: | Dordrecht |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2022/07/15 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2020/10/08 |
| Publishing Institution: | Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsbibliothek |
| Tag: | Aboutness; Conditional logic; Imagination; Predicate logic |
| Volume: | 50 |
| First Page: | 523 |
| Last Page: | 547 |
| Note: | Dieser Beitrag ist auf Grund des DEAL-Springer-Vertrages frei zugänglich. |
| Institutes/Facilities: | Institut für Philosophie I |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | Philosophie und Psychologie / Philosophie |
| open_access (DINI-Set): | open_access |
| faculties: | Fakultät für Philosophie und Erziehungswissenschaft |
| Licence (English): |  Creative Commons - CC BY 4.0 - Attribution 4.0 International |
