Metaphysics First or Language First: The Notion of a Single Object

In Richard Gaskin (ed.), The Question of Idealism (forthcoming)
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Abstract

This paper argues that the notion of a single object or 'being one' does not require worldly or perceived conditions of integrity and even less so concept-relative atomicity. It generally is based on conditions of integrity of some sort, but not strictly so. It rather is imposed by the use of count categories in natural language and thus makes a case for linguistic idealism.

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Friederike Moltmann
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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