Keywords
Slingshot arguments. Church. Gödel. Frege. Russell. Definite descriptions
How to Cite
CHATEAUBRIAND, Oswaldo. Did the slingshots hit the mark?: reply to Marco Ruffino. Manuscrito: International Journal of Philosophy, Campinas, SP, v. 27, n. 1, p. 211–225, 2016. Disponível em: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/manuscrito/article/view/8644293. Acesso em: 18 may. 2024.
Abstract
In §§1-2 I argue that Marco misidentifies my main objections to the Church and Gödel slingshot arguments and that his defense of these arguments does not overcome those objections. In §3 I discuss his criticisms of my theory of descriptions in relation to Church’s argument.References
CHURCH, A. Introduction to Mathematical Logic. Volume 1. Princeton, N.J.:
Princeton University Press, 1956.
FREGE, G. “On Sense and Reference” (1892). In: P. Geach and M. Black (eds.) Translations from the Philosophical Writings of Gottlob Frege.
Oxford: Blackwell, 1960.
RUSSELL, B. “On Denoting”. Mind, new series, 14, pp. 479-93, 1905.
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