Signo y representacióncuando lo virtual es real
ISSN: 2255-5862
Year of publication: 2008
Issue: 8
Pages: 233-243
Type: Article
More publications in: Ontology studies: Cuadernos de ontología
Abstract
Virtuality is a peculiarity of representation systems given their capacity of going beyond here and now, and for their capacity of action upon us. The paper considers, within the field of analytic philosophy, some ways in which the virtual abstract entities are understood as real; it analyzes Frege’s difficulties to recognize thoughts as real. The paper also focuses in Carnap and Quine’s reflections in relation to abstract entities, to which they give a special ontological weight that has to do with their belonging to a representation system, be it a linguistic frame or a theory.