On weak truthmaking
| Autor: | Guarino, N., Daniele Porello, Guizzardi, G. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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| Zdroj: | Scopus-Elsevier Joint Ontology Workshops 2019 Episode {V:} The Styrian Autumn of Ontology, Graz, Austria, September 23-25, 2019, Graz, Austria, September 23-25, 2019 info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Nicola Guarino, Daniele Porello, Giancarlo Guizzardi/congresso_nome:Joint Ontology Workshops 2019 Episode {V:} The Styrian Autumn of Ontology, Graz, Austria, September 23-25, 2019/congresso_luogo:Graz, Austria,/congresso_data:September 23-25, 2019/anno:2019/pagina_da:/pagina_a:/intervallo_pagine |
| Popis: | Informally speaking, a truthmaker is something in the world in virtue of which the sentences of a language can be made true. This fundamental philosophical notion plays a central role in applied ontology. In particular, a recent nonorthodox formulation of this notion proposed by the philosopher Josh Parsons, which we labelled weak truthamking, has been shown to be extremely useful in addressing a number of classical problems in the area of Conceptual Modeling. In this paper, after revisiting the classical notion of truthmaking, we conduct an in depth analysis of Parsons' account of weak truthmaking. By doing that, we expose some difficulties in his original formulation. As the main contribution of this paper, we propose solutions to address these issues which are then integrated in a new precise interpretation of truthmaking that is harmonizable with commonsense as well as with existing four-category foundational ontologies. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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