Mais de uma maneira de continuar

referência, função e a tipagem de conceitos engenheirados

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47456/sofia.v15i2.54178

Palavras-chave:

engenharia conceitual, neopragmatismo, referência, inferencialismo, classes de tipos, proposições como tipos

Resumo

A engenharia conceitual é frequentemente descrita como a prática de fixar a referência de nossos termos. Este artigo sustenta que essa descrição erra quanto à origem da prática e ao lugar de sua avaliação. A razão para revisar um conceito, onde quer que a literatura ofereça uma, é funcional, e a razão funcional é uma dívida com o pragmatismo, do segundo Wittgenstein, passando por Sellars e Brandom, até Price. O pragmatista deve então explicar como avaliar revisões sem a referência, e o artigo o faz por tradução. Onde Carnap e Montague traduziram a linguagem natural em linguagem artificial, a proposta traduz papel normativo em tipo funcional. Um conceito torna-se uma interface com leis, um modo de usá-lo torna-se uma instância que satisfaz as leis, e uma revisão torna-se a substituição de uma instância por outra sob uma interface comum. Elaborada em Haskell e Julia, e lida pela correspondência proposições-como-tipos, a tradução converte o lema pragmatista de que há sempre mais de uma maneira de continuar em uma propriedade verificável de uma linguagem tipada. A referência sobrevive como uma função entre outras que uma interface pode exigir, e a categoria metassemântica só se justifica para conceitos cuja tarefa inclui rastrear.

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Biografia do Autor

  • Bernardo Alonso, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso

    Bernardo Alonso is a Ph.D. from UFRJ, and full professor at UFMT. Worked as research assistant at University of Hertfordshire (UK) under the supervision of professor Luciano Floridi (Yale), worked at Phenomenal Qualities project (Oxford, Herts and Cambridge) with professor Gallen Strawson, Tim Crane and David Chalmers, is affiliated to Privacy International (UK), Electronic Frontier Foundation (USA) and Computer Chaos Camp (Germany).

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20-10-2026

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ALONSO, B. Mais de uma maneira de continuar: referência, função e a tipagem de conceitos engenheirados. Sofia, v. 15, n. 2, p. e15254178, 20 out.2026.