Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: In ‘Senses of Essence’ Kit Fine tentatively proposed that one could take the notion of real definition as basic and define essence in terms of it. Building on Litland 2023 this paper begins to develop an account where the notion of full, immediate real definition is taken as basic. We then sketch how one can provide non-circular definitions of the logical operations and sketch how one can define various essentialist operations.
Source: Metaphysics
DOI: 10.5334/met.190
Author: Jon Erling Litland
Institutions: University of Oslo, The University of Texas at Austin
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
Funder: European Commission
Award: G8909377397
OpenAlex ID: W4412898913