Structural entailment and semantic natural kinds.
Is there a principled difference between entailments in natural language that are valid solely in virtue of their form or structure and those that are not? This paper advances an affirmative answer to this question, one that takes as its starting point Gareth Evans's suggestion that semantic theory...
| Publicado en: | Linguistics & Philosophy Vol. 40; no. 3; pp. 207 - 238 |
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Springer Nature
Jun2017
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