Heidegger's Logico-Semantic Strikeback
Organon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 22:19-38 (2015)
Abstract
In (1959), Carnap famously attacked Heidegger for having constructed an
insane metaphysics based on a misconception of both the logical form and the semantics
of ordinary language. In what follows, it will be argued that, once one appropriately
(i.e., in a Russellian fashion) reads Heidegger’s famous sentence that should paradigmatically
exemplify such a misconception, i.e., “the nothing nothings”, there is nothing
either logically or semantically wrong with it. The real controversy as to how that sentence
has to be evaluated—not as to its meaning but as to its truth—lies at the metaphysico-
ontological level. For in order for the sentence to be true one has to endorse an
ontology of impossibilia and Leibniz’s principle of the identity of indiscernibles.
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