The Non-Existence of Determinables: Or, a World of Absolute Determinates as Default Hypothesis
Noûs 39 (3):483 - 504 (2005)
| Abstract | An electron clearly has the property of having a charge of þ1.6 Â 10À19 coulombs, but does it also have the property of being charged ? Philosophers have worried whether so-called ‘determinable’ predicates, such as ‘is charged’, actually refer to determinable properties in the way they are happy to say that determinate predicates, such as ‘has a charge of þ1.6 Â 10À19 coulombs’, refer to determinate properties. The distinction between determinates and determinables is itself fairly new, dating only to its definition by the Cambridge logician W. E. Johnson early in the last century.1 But despite its newly minted condition the distinction has found little currency in on-going philosophical debates. Or at least until recently. | |||||||||
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