Sign-Language-Reality seminar (4 III 2021): Contradictoriness

The next meeting of the Sign-Language-Reality seminar will take place this Friday, 4 III 2022, 17.00, Central European Time.

Diego Feinmann
(École Normale Supérieure)

will deliver a talk:

ABSTRACT

Why does a sentence such as ‘John was killed but didn’t die’ feel contradictory? The standard response to this question is familiar: ‘John was killed but didn’t die’ feels contradictory because it is a necessary falsehood (i.e. it is false in every possible world). This talk is divided into three parts: in the first part of the talk, I show that the condition of being false in every possible world isn’t a predictor of contradictoriness; in the second part, I put forth an account of contradictoriness and discuss its predictions; in the third part, I make the case that redundancy is the other side of the coin of the phenomenon of contradictoriness and suggest a path to theoretical unification The meeting will be organized via Google Meet and will be open to all who are interested.

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The ist of this year seminar meetings is available at:

http://pts.edu.pl/seminarium-2021-2022.html
Sign-Language-Reality seminars are organized jointly by the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Warsaw and Polish Semiotic Society.