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- Title
Recovering What Is Said With Empty Names.
- Authors
PICCININI, GUALTIERO; SCOTT, SAM
- Abstract
The article details on the semantic intuitions of the philosophers in negative existential sentences which include empty names. It explains the disagreement between the meaning of proper names in Millianism and the semantic intuition which shows that empty names have no meaning due to lack of referent. It mentions several theses to accept semantic intuitions on empty names including no referent, gappy propositions that do not have value, and empty names that show gappy propositions.
- Subjects
INTUITION; EXISTENTIAL constructions (Grammar); NAMES; REFERENCE (Philosophy); PROPOSITION (Logic)
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 2010, Vol 40, Issue 2, p239
- ISSN
0045-5091
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/cjp.2010.0005