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The problem of empty names and Russellian Plenitude
Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 2016Abstract‘Ahab is a whaler’ and ‘Holmes is a whaler’ express different propositions, even though neither ‘Ahab’ nor ‘Holmes’ has a referent. This seems to constitute a theoretical puzzle for the Russellian view of propositions. In this paper, I develop a variant of the Russellian view, Plenitudinous Russellianism.
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Dąmbska, Quine, and the So-Called Empty Names
1998In a short but important article,1 the Polish philosopher Izydora Dąmbska criticised the thesis — endorsed by Tadeusz Kotarbinski2 — that there are ‘empty’ terms which denote no objects at all, besides the usual general and singular terms. Dąmbska remarked that “we usually find cited as examples of empty names such self-contradictory names as’ square ...
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Empty Signs, Historical Imaginaries
2020-- Introduction -- Part I: Peasants -- Chapter 1. Under Ancestral Masks: Name-Giving Nationalized -- Chapter 2. Family Names on the Ground -- Chapter 3. Place Names and Etymologies from Below -- Part II: Nationalisms -- Chapter 4. Faces of the Self-Other: Contact-Influenced Family Names in Discourse and Practice -- Chapter 5.
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Russellians can have a no proposition view of empty names
Inquiry (United Kingdom), 2018Thomas Hodgson
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Nietzsche, Empty Names, and Individuality
International Studies in Philosophy, 2006openaire +1 more source