NATURAL KINDS AND OUR SEMANTIC INTUITIONS ALONG THE ROAD
AUTOR(ES)
DEMARTINI, THAINÁ COLTRO
FONTE
Manuscrito
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2020-12
RESUMO
Abstract This is a comment on Gómez-Torrente’s approach to natural kinds and natural kind terms. Here I will focus on his concerns related to the arbitrariness argument and his attempt to formulate a reply to it that maintains most (if not all) of the “Kripke-Putnam orthodoxy” when it comes to the reference-fixing of such terms. Gómez-Torrente concludes that ordinary kind terms have distinct referents from scientific terms. I will challenge one of the premises that he employs in reaching this conclusion: namely, that the difference in determinacy profiles between ordinary natural kinds and scientific kinds is enough to assume that the terms referring to them do not share their referents. I also suggest that some kind of contextual interpretation of natural kind terms might provide a nice explanation of those determinacy variations.
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