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- Title
Paraphrase is not enough.
- Authors
Barker, Chris
- Abstract
The arguments of Kripke and others present a grave challenge for any attempt to render the meaning of proper names and natural kind terms by means of paraphrase. If those arguments are correct, then NSM is necessarily incomplete as a theory of meaning. Furthermore, I have argued that in any theory that limits itself exclusively to paraphrase, indexicality, presupposition, and performatives each induce a systematic partial duplication of certain concepts. If so, then NSM fails to provide a set of irreducible primes, since multiple pairs of primes share manifestly analyzable semantic sub-components.
- Subjects
PARAPHRASE; SEMANTICS; NAMES; MEANING of meaning theory (Communication); INFORMATION theory; LINGUISTIC analysis
- Publication
Theoretical Linguistics, 2004, Vol 29, Issue 3, p201
- ISSN
0301-4428
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/thli.29.3.201