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Sainsbury on Thinking about an Object

Crítica, 2019
R.M. Sainsbury’s account of reference has many compelling and attractive features. But it has the undesirable consequence that sentences of the form “x is thinking about y” can never be true when y is replaced by a non-referring term. Of the two obvious
Tim Crane
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Introduction: Proper Names and Modes of Existence

Studia Semiotyczne, 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.26333/sts.xxxvi1.01 This special issue of Semiotic Studies is devoted to proper names, and continues to some extent the line of research discussed in the contributions to the special issue of Organon F, 28(1), on names and ...
Piotr Stalmaszczyk
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An Actualist’s Guide to Quantifying In

Crítica, 2018
I develop a device for simulating quantification over merely possible objects from the perspective of a modal actualist---someone who thinks that everything that exists actually exists.
Agustín Rayo
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About Evolution of the Semantics of Some Old Bulgarian Verbs with a Prefix

Славянский мир в третьем тысячелетии, 2023
The article is dedicated to the problem of the existence of the empty prefixes the Old Bulgarian language. The linguistic material is collected from dictionaries and archives. Althought the research, by its nature, is interdisciplinary the main method is
Кiril Кirilov , Natalia Lunkova
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The no-proposition and the unfilled-proposition views on empty names

The Reasoner, 2011
Zuzanna Gnatek
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THE SEMIOTIC COMPONENT OF LACUNS AND THEIR BASIC TYPES IN THE LANGUAGE

مجلة الآداب, 2020
The article attempts to provide the theoretical fundamentals for the semiotic component of lacunae in a language. The definitions of the following notions have been represented: 1) lacunarity as a complex phenomenon that works in the modes of language ...
Inas Tarek Shaker
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Japonia i Zachód – spotkania w globalnej wiosce

Sprawy Narodowościowe. Seria nowa, 2022
Japan and the West – Meetings in the Global Village Japan is one of the most fascinating economic powers in the world. Over the whole of its history, even in the strong isolationist periods, it has imported foreign ideas which were later adjusted to ...
Zuzanna Grüner
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Russellians can have a no proposition view of empty names [PDF]

, 2017
Russellians can have a no proposition view of empty names. I will defend this theory against the problem of meaningfulness, and show that the theory is in general well motivated.
Hodgson, Thomas; id_orcid, Thomas Hodgson   +1 more
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The Specificity of Names Predicated of the Nature of God Based on the Cognition of Created Beings According to St. Thomas Aquinas [PDF]

Studia Gilsoniana
In his reflections on the nature of God, St. Thomas Aquinas maintains that although the divine being, as it exists in itself, is unknowable, it can nevertheless be characterized per analogiam through the perfections proper to creatures.
Paulina Sulenta
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Referential Transparency of Motivated Public Authorities' Names in Translations

Comparative Legilinguistics, 2019
The paper focuses on adequacy and clarity of motivated public authorities' names in translation of constitutional acts. In order to assess the adequacy level of identification of the authorities' name references in the source legal system, a survey has ...
Iluk Łukasz
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