El problema de los contrafácticos en la semántica de Davidson
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Universidad Industrial de Santander
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Discuto la semántica de las oraciones de acción de Davidson para argumentar que no tiene elementos suficientes para analizar contrafácticos. Presento dos críticas. En la primera, sostengo que dada la ontología del autor acerca de las acciones, resulta imposible considerar la misma acción en circunstancias contrafácticas. En la segunda, argumento que el carácter descriptivo de las oraciones impide que un hablante pueda extrapolar la semántica davidsoniana de oraciones que este conoce a oraciones de acción contrafácticas.
I discuss Davidson´s semantics of action sentences to argue that it doesn´t have enough elements to deal with counterfactuals. I propose two criticisms. In the first one, I argue that due to the author´s ontology regarding actions, it is impossible to consider the same actions in counterfactuals circumstances. In the second, I claim that the descriptive character of the actions sentences prevent that one speaker can extrapolate the Davidson´s semantics from sentences that he knows to counterfactual actions sentences.
I discuss Davidson´s semantics of action sentences to argue that it doesn´t have enough elements to deal with counterfactuals. I propose two criticisms. In the first one, I argue that due to the author´s ontology regarding actions, it is impossible to consider the same actions in counterfactuals circumstances. In the second, I claim that the descriptive character of the actions sentences prevent that one speaker can extrapolate the Davidson´s semantics from sentences that he knows to counterfactual actions sentences.
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acción, contrafáctico, circunstancia, semántica, contenido, action, counterfactual, circumstance, semantics, content