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Recovering What Is Said With Empty Names
Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 2010 As our data will show, negative existential sentences containing socalledemptynames evoke the same strong semantic intuitions in ordinary speakers and philosophers alike.(1)(a) Santa Claus does not exist.(b) Superman does not exist.(c) Clark Kent does not exist.Uttering the sentences in (1) seems tosay something truth-evaluable, to say somethingtrue ...
Piccinini, Dr. Gualtiero, Scott, Dr. Sam
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Empty Names, Presupposition Failure, and Metalinguistic Negation
The Journal of Philosophy, 2021 When it comes to empty names, we seem to have reached very little consensus. Still, we all seem to agree, first, that our semantics should assign truth to (one reading of) negative singular existence statements in which an empty name occurs and, second, that names are used in such statements.
Felappi, Giulia
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Are Names Really Empty: A Look into Shona Dog Names
European Scientific Journal, ESJ, 2016 Following the popular Shakespearean saying that there is nothing in a name, the paper ventures into the linguistic area of onomastics focusing on uncovering the exact truth behind names in societies. It takes the Shona people’s dog names as a case study and reports on results from a qualitative research that used observations and open ended interviews ...
Mhute, Isaac
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Truths Containing Empty Names [PDF]
, 2019 . On the Direct Reference thesis, proper names are what I call ‘genuine terms’, terms whose sole semantic contributions to the propositions expressed by their use are the terms’ semantic referents.
McKinsey, Michael
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The examination of Kripke's view on the problem of empty names [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفهIn this article, we will explain and examine Saul Kripke's views on the problem of empty names, by focuing on his book Naming and Necessity. The first and more detailed section of the article discusses Kripke's ideas in depth. He begins by addressing the
Mahdi Hafezi, Fereshteh Nabati
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Nominal Logic with Equations Only [PDF]
Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, 2011 Many formal systems, particularly in computer science, may be captured by equations modulated by side conditions asserting the "freshness of names"; these can be reasoned about with Nominal Equational Logic (NEL).
Ranald Clouston
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What to Say When There Is Nothing to Talk about
Crítica, 2019 In Reference without Referents, Mark Sainsbury aims to provide an account of reference that honours the common-sense view that sentences containing empty names like “Vulcan” and “Santa Claus” are entirely intelligible, and that many such sentences ...
Mircea Dumitru, Frederick Kroon
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Improving Reliability of Onomastic Etymology (with Reference to the Southeastern Lake Onega Region)
Вопросы ономастики, 2021 The paper addresses the problem of improving reliability of onomastic etymologies using the example of historical and modern personal and place names of southeastern Lake Onega region.
Anton I. Sobolev
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Intensional Transitives and Presuppositions
Crítica, 2008 My commentators point to respects in which the picture provided in Reference without Referents is incomplete. The picture provided no account of how sentences constructed from intensional verbs (like “John thought about Pegasus”) can be true when one of
R. M. Sainsbury
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Crítica, 2020 This paper uses cases involving empty singular terms (on the one hand, cases of what I call “accidental aboutness-failure”; on the other, cases involving proper names occurring in fictions) to argue for a claim about the goal of ordinary belief-forming ...
Imogen Dickie
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