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Descriptivism, scope, and apparently empty names
Philosophical Studies, 2010Some descriptivists reply to the modal argument by appealing to scope ambiguities. In this paper, we argue that those replies don't work in the case of apparently empty names like 'Sherlock Holmes'.
Ben Caplan
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Some Names for Empty Space [PDF]
, 2021 Some Names for Empty Space is a collection of poems that considers how poetry and language operate to define human experience, reconciling the 'empty spaces' between the self and the abstracted variables of all things. The poems here often find their impetus in fatherhood and a parent's efforts to explain the world to a child.
Koch, Andrew (Poet)
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Empty Names, Semantics, and the A Priori
1987The second of our two tasks is to find a solution to Russell’s Problem. Russell’s Problem as presented in the Introduction is the problem of empty proper names. To solve the problem we must provide an account, within the direct reference theory, of beliefs and propositions that are expressed by sentences containing nondenoting proper names.
G W Fitch
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Russellians can solve the problem of empty names with nonsingular propositions
SynthÈse, 2018 Views that treat the contents of sentences as structured, Russellian propositions face a problem with empty names. It seems that those sorts of things cannot be the contents of sentences containing such names.
Thomas Hodgson
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Concerning the So-Called Empty Names
1979The traditional dichotomous division of names into general and singular has been replaced in contemporary logic by a trichotomous division: general, singular, and empty. As Professor Kotarbieski says in Gnosiology, “There are singular terms, which denote one and only one object, there are general terms, which denote more than one object, and there are ...
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Direct Reference and Empty Names
, 2013 The purpose of my thesis is to explore and assess recent efforts by Direct Reference Theorists to explain the phenomenon of empty names. Direct Reference theory is, roughly, the theory that the meaning of a singular term (proper name, demonstrative, etc.)
Cook, Benjamin
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Empty Names and Pragmatic Implicatures
Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 2007What are the meanings of empty names such as ‘Vulcan,’ ‘Pegasus,’ and ‘Santa Claus’ in such sentences as ‘Vulcan is the tenth planet,’ ‘Pegasus flies,’ and especially ‘Santa Claus does not exist’?Our view, developed in Adams et al. (1992, 1994, 1997, 2004), consists of a direct-reference account of the meaning of empty names in combination with a ...
Fred Adams, Gary Fuller
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