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Empty names, hallucinations, and semantics [PDF]
Frontiers in Bioscience - Scholar, 2021 In this paper we introduce the problem space of the intersection of hallucinatory experiences and hallucinatory thoughts involving empty names. We recount a brief history of the theory of names. We select and defend a direct reference theory of names. We
Fred Adams, Andrew J Jackson
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Empty Names and Negative Existentials
Crítica, 2020 Empty Names and Negative ...
Ricardo Mena
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Studia Semiotyczne, 2022 DOI: https://doi.org/10.26333/sts.xxxvi1.07 The chief purpose of this paper is to advance a defence of the old-fashioned view that empty names are neither proper names nor any other kind of interpretable expressions. A view of this sort usually makes
Mirco Sambrotta
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How Can Millians Believe in Superheroes? [PDF]
Organon F, 2021 What is the content of beliefs expressed by sentences with fictional names? Millianism has notoriously struggled to give a satisfactory answer to this question. Some Millians have argued that fictional names are empty names.
Juliana Faccio Lima
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Fictional Tellers: A Radical Fictionalist Semantics for Fictional Discourse [PDF]
Organon F, 2021 This essay proposes a dissolution of the so-called ‘semantic problem of fictional names’ by arguing that fictional names are only fictionally proper names.
Stefano Predelli
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The Strange Case of Dr. Moloch and Mr. Snazzo (or the Parmenides’ Riddle Once Again)
Philosophies, 2023 Once one draws a distinction between loyal non-existent items, which do not exist in a non-universal sense of the first-order existence predicate, and non-items, which fail to exist in a universal sense of that predicate, one may allow for the former but
Alberto Voltolini
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Syro-Melkite manuscript of the 15th century (vat. Sir. 351): an unfinished project of the monthly Menaion for the whole year in one volume [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. Филология, 2023 This article describes contents, paleographic, linguistic, and liturgical features of one of the Syriac manuscripts of the Vatican Library, Vat. sir. 351, dating back to the 15th century.
Aleksandr Lukashevich
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Prevalence and factors influencing depression among empty nesters in China: A meta-analysis
BMC Geriatrics, 2023 Background Empty nesters are older people who live alone or an older couple without children to care for them. In China, empty nesters make up a significant community and are more likely to experience emotional issues, particularly depression. This study
Caini Song +4 more
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Meaning of proper names in contexts of attitudes: de re naming and fictions
Слово.ру: балтийский акцент, 2022 The author explores the meaning of proper names and other types of singular terms in the context of propositional attitudes, combining the problems of empty names, rigid designators and non-specific reading. An object in the attitudes can be given to the
Ivan B. Mikirtumov
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No Reference Without Referents
Revista de Filosofia, 2016 Sainsbury 2005 and 2009 offers a theory of empty names that purports to account for the content and truth-value of all utterances involving them. The goal is to do this while offering a homogenous semantic treatment: both empty and nonempty names make ...
Eduardo Garcia Ramírez
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