Odd Objects: LEM Violations and Indeterminacy

Goswick, Dana

doi:10.1007/s10670-019-00173-8

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“…2. For recent works that advocate metaphysical indeterminacy, see Williams (2008), Barnes and Williams (2011), Wilson (2013;2017), Barnes (2014), Torza (2020), and Goswick (2021). In developing OI, I have incorporated a number of ideas from Jessica Wilson's account of metaphysical indeterminacy.…”

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Can the World Be Indeterminate in All Respects?

2023

Ergo an Open Access Journal of Philosophy

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Especially over the past twenty years, a number of analytic philosophers have embraced the idea that the world itself is vague or indeterminate in one or more respects. The issue then arises as to whether it can be the case that the world itself is indeterminate in all respects. Using as a basis Chinese Madhyamaka Buddhist thought, I offer two reasons for the coherence and intelligibility of the thesis that all concrete things are themselves indeterminate with respect to the ways they are. The first reason draws on a notion reminiscent of the picture of reality as an amorphous lump, while the second reason makes use of the relativity of conceptual perspectives and determinations. Assuming that the world is the mere totality of all concrete things, I show that there is a genuine metaphysical possibility of the world’s being indeterminate in all respects.

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