O conceito de somação e os termos nomeadores de indivíduos, no artigo identidade, ostensão e hipóstase, de Quine

• Ano de defesa: 2023
• Autor(a) principal: Xavier, Caio Bismarck Silva
• Orientador(a): Velloso, Araceli Rosich Soares
• Banca de defesa: Velloso, Araceli Rosich Soares, Imaguire, Guido, Porto, André da Silva
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Goiás
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-graduação em Filosofia (FAFIL)
• Departamento: Faculdade de Filosofia - FAFIL (RG)
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Identidade; Somação; Cálculo de indivíduos; Crítica à distinção entre termos singulares e termos gerais
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Identity; Summation; Calculus of individuals; Critique of the distinction between singular terms and general terms
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CIENCIAS HUMANAS::FILOSOFIA
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/13089

The general goal of this dissertation is to explain the influence of the concept of “summation”, that came from the nominalist work developed by Quine together with Goodman, in the way in which Quine proposes to discuss the identity and the role of general and singular terms in the article Identity, ostension and hypostasis (1950). Our dissertation aims to show that in this article, Quine suggests a critique of the distinction between singular terms and general terms based on the concept of “summation”. Our hypothesis is that the philosopher would consider that this distinction could be set aside, if the conception of language as a theory of reference were replaced by another conception that used, in place of the concept of “reference”, the concept of “summation”. In the course of our argument, we will try to show what Quine can and what he cannot recover concerning the conception of language as a theory of reference using only the concept of “summation” and an act of ostension, linguistically represented by the demonstrative pronoun.