Worldly Indeterminacy and the Provisionality of Language
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21293447 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chien-hsing Ho (0000-0003-2281-8383, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 102 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 896-904 |
| Publication date | 2024-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australasian Journal of Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-8402 • E-ISSN: 1470-6828 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00048402.2024.2326430 |
| OpenAlex | W4393029203 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 9 |
Theorists who advocate worldly (metaphysical or ontological) indeterminacy—the idea that the world itself is indeterminate in one or more respects—should address how we understand the signifying nature and function of language in light of worldly indeterminacy. I first attend to Sengzhao and Jizang, two leading thinkers in Chinese Sanlun Buddhism, to reconstruct a Chinese Madhyamaka notion of ontic indeterminacy. Then, I draw on the thinkers’ views to propose a provisional (non-definitive) understanding of the nature and use of language. Under this understanding, an expression signifying a thing is provisional in that the expression connotes no determinate feature of the thing
Economics · Epistemology · Indeterminacy (philosophy) · Linguistics · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |