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The dynamics of episodic recall

Ahissar E, Mizrachi N.
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Empty Names

, 2015
Peter Hanks
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A Hyperintensional Theory of (Empty) Names

Erkenntnis, 2021
This paper presents an original semantic theory of proper names that aims to cover both non-empty and empty proper names. According to the theory, proper names have simple assignable hyperintensions as their content. This content provides the referent (if there is one) for which the proper name stands.
Miloš Kosterec
exaly   +2 more sources

Empty Names, Fictional Names, Mythical Names

Nous, 2005
John Stuart Mill (1843) thought that proper names denote individuals and do not connote attributes. Contemporary Millians agree, in spirit. We hold that the semantic content of a proper name is simply its referent. We also think that the semantic content of a declarative sentence is a Russellian structured proposition whose constituents are the ...
David Braun
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Empty Names, Propositions, and Attitude Ascriptions [PDF]

, 2015
This chapter intends to offer a theory of empty names that is consistent with the doctrine of direct reference and respects the intuition that sentences such as _Vulcan does not exist, Le Verrier imagined Vulcan, and Le Verrier believed that Vulcan ...
Santambrogio, Marco
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Empty Names

, 2006
B. Caplan
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Simple Trinitarianism and empty names

Religious Studies, 2018
AbstractAccording to Simple Trinitarianism, God is mereologically simple, and the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are not identified with any entities in our ontology. Thus the Simple Trinitarian is able to avoid conflating Persons or multiplying Gods, and does not have to identify the Persons with minor entities or entities partly disjoint from God ...
SHIEVA KLEINSCHMIDT
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A Cognitive Theory of Empty Names

Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 2011
Ordinary use of empty names encompasses a variety of different phenomena, including issues in semantics, mental content, fiction, pretense, and linguistic practice. In this paper I offer a novel account of empty names, the cognitive theory, and show how it offers a satisfactory account of the phenomena.
Eduardo García-Ramirez
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