Dr James Miller james.miller@durham.ac.uk
Assistant Professor
Language and ontological emergence
Miller, J.T.M.
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Abstract
Providing empirically supportable instances of ontological emergence is notoriously difficult. Typically, the literature has focused on two possible sources. The first is the mind and consciousness; the second is within physics, and more specifically certain quantum effects. In this paper, I wish to suggest that the literature has overlooked a further possible instance of emergence, taken from the special science of linguistics. In particular, I will focus on the property of truth-evaluability, taken to be a property of sentences as created by the language faculty within human minds (or brains). The claim will not be as strong as to suggest that the linguistic data and theories prove emergence. Rather the dialectical aim here is to say that we have some good reasons (even if not conclusive reasons) to think that the property is emergent.
Citation
Miller, J. (2017). Language and ontological emergence. Philosophica (Gent. Printed), 91, 105-143
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Online Publication Date | Feb 6, 2018 |
Publication Date | 2017 |
Deposit Date | Jul 29, 2020 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 29, 2024 |
Journal | Philosophica |
Print ISSN | 0379-8402 |
Publisher | Ghent University |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 91 |
Pages | 105-143 |
Publisher URL | https://www.philosophica.ugent.be/ |
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