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Dialogue, 2007
ABSTRACTFred Adams and collaborators advocate a view on which empty-name sentences semantically encode incomplete propositions, but which can be used to conversationally implicate descriptive propositions. This account has come under criticism recently from Marga Reimer and Anthony Everett.
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ABSTRACTFred Adams and collaborators advocate a view on which empty-name sentences semantically encode incomplete propositions, but which can be used to conversationally implicate descriptive propositions. This account has come under criticism recently from Marga Reimer and Anthony Everett.
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Millianism, Empty Names and The No-Proposition View
Temaşa Erciyes Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü Dergisi, 2023Millianism fundamentally holds that the semantic content of a proper name is its referent. Respectively, it implies that an empty name has no semantic content. Given an orthodox sense of proposition-talk and the Fregean principle of compositionality, Millianism further entails a disputable view on the semantics of empty-name sentences- namely, the No ...
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Idealistic Studies, 1997
Etude de la critique de la these de T. Kotarbinski, selon laquelle il existe des noms vides qui ne designent aucun objet tel que cercle carre ou le nom de divinites, developpee par I. Dambska a partir du paradoxe de la fonction semantique du nom qui consiste en la denotation.
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Etude de la critique de la these de T. Kotarbinski, selon laquelle il existe des noms vides qui ne designent aucun objet tel que cercle carre ou le nom de divinites, developpee par I. Dambska a partir du paradoxe de la fonction semantique du nom qui consiste en la denotation.
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Empty Names and `Gappy' Propositions
Philosophical Studies, 2003In recent years a number of authors sympathetic to Referentialistaccounts of proper names have argued that utterances containingempty names express `gappy,' or incomplete, propositions. In this paper I want to take issue with this suggestion.In particular, I argue versions of this approach developedby David Braun, Nathan Salmon, Ken Taylor, and by Fred
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Empty Names and Pragmatic Millianism
Thought: A Journal of Philosophy, 2014Millianism is the view that the semantic content of a proper name is its semantic referent. Empty names, names with no semantic referents, raise various problems for Millianism. To solve these problems, many have appealed to pragmatics, thus ‘Pragmatic Millianism’.
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The Things We Do with Empty Names
2014Abstract This chapter undertakes to apply the previously developed theory of objective representational content to our thought and talk about apparently non-existent objects. It aims to show that we need not construe the referents of singular terms within fiction and within mathematics as possessing bona fide existence (or non-existence)
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Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2004
Abstract: This paper defends a direct reference view of names including empty names. The theory says that empty names literally have no meaning and cannot be used to express truths. Names, including empty names, are associated with accompanying descriptions that are implicated in pragmati‐cally imparted truths when empty names are used.
FRED ADAMS, LAURA A. DIETRICH
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Abstract: This paper defends a direct reference view of names including empty names. The theory says that empty names literally have no meaning and cannot be used to express truths. Names, including empty names, are associated with accompanying descriptions that are implicated in pragmati‐cally imparted truths when empty names are used.
FRED ADAMS, LAURA A. DIETRICH
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Direct Reference, Empty Names and Implicature
Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 2007Angle Grinder Man removes wheel locks from cars in London. He is something of a folk hero, saving drivers from enormous parking and towing fines, and has succeeded thus far in eluding the authorities. In spite of his cape and lamé tights, he is no fiction; he's a real person. By contrast, Pegasus, Zeus and the like are fictions.
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