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Higher-Order Objects in the Semantics of Natural Language
This is a comment on Cian Dorr 'Higher-Order Quantification and the Elimination of Abstract Objects'. The aim of this contribution is to clarify and further develop a view (with its empirical generalizations) on which higher-order objects play a highly restricted role in the ontology of natural language. A sharp distinction is drawn between ontologically dependent objects (events, tropes, qualities, attitudinal objects etc.) and higher-order objects (properties, relations, propositions, etc.). Natural language reflects an ontology of the former, rather than of the latter.
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