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Singular terms revisited

SynthÈse, 2015
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Robert Schwartzkopff
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Singular Terms for Numbers?

Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2019
In natural language, number-words can be used in two different syntactic ways: adjectivally, i.e., with the syntactic status of an adjective, as in (1) ‘Mars has two moons,’ and nominally, i.e., with the syntactic status of a noun phrase, as in (2) ‘Two is even.’ This syntactic difference is often taken to correspond to a difference in semantic ...
Robert Schwartzkopff
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The semantics of singular terms

Philosophical Studies, 1976
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The semantics of singular terms

Journal of Symbolic Logic, 1962
There is a distinction within the natural language between those singular terms which designate and those which do not. On the basis of this distinction there arise irregularities both in the assignment to expressions of semantical properties and relations and in the presumed attribution of existence to individuals.
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Singular terms and predication

Synthese, 1961
The ideas of singular term and of general term in predicative position play a central part in Quine’s theory of canonical notation. I examine two attempts to explain these ideas, and I argue that they rest upon certain other notions whose role as foundations is not clearly acknowledged in Quine’s explanations.
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Singular Terms

The Journal of Philosophy, 1974
Abstract The central idea of Kripke’s “causal theory”, alternative to the traditional “description” theory, is that our present uses of a name typically designate an object in virtue of a causal network of borrowings stretching back to the first uses of the name to designate the object.
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