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• Autores: Theodore Sider
• Localización: Analysis, ISSN-e 1467-8284, Vol. 73, Nº. 4, 2013, págs. 713-715
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Nelson Goodman (1978) said that there is no �ready-made world�. Human physicists speak of �charge�, �mass� and �distance�, but nothing would be wrong with instead describing the world using cooked-up words that stand to the physicists� words as Goodman�s �grue� and �bleen� stand to �green� and �blue�.

    My central thesis is that there is a ready-made world. Some concepts are objectively privileged: the �fundamental�, or �joint-carving�, or �structural� ones. A complete description of reality using these concepts � the �book of the world� � gives reality�s fundamental structure. A description using cooked-up concepts can be true, and even in a sense equivalent to the book of the world, but is nevertheless representationally deficient since its structure does not match the world�s structure.

    Many of the traditional questions of metaphysics are about the nature of reality�s fundamental structure. Is reality �ultimately� just physical, �