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[from 'Ontology and the Ambitions of Metaphysics' by Thomas Hofweber, in 19. Language / D. Propositions / 3. Concrete Propositions ]

Full Idea

Might there be some thought token that has a different content than any such token we can in principle have?

Gist of Idea

Do there exist thoughts which we are incapable of thinking?

Source

Thomas Hofweber (Ontology and the Ambitions of Metaphysics [2016], 10.3.3)

Book Reference

Hofweber,Thomas: 'Ontology and the Ambitions of Metaphysics' [OUP 2018], p.268


A Reaction

For me the idea that a thought might exist which can never be thought is an absurdity, but people who believe in the external existence of parts of reality called 'propositions' seem committed to it. A baffling view.