The naked 'duchess': names are titles.
In her recent defense of predicativism for proper names, Delia Graff Fara proposes the following non-metalinguistic being-called condition (BCC) for the applicability of names as predicates: A name 'N' is true of a thing if and only if it is called N. The BCC is supposed to hold for names only. In t...
| Publicado en: | Linguistics & Philosophy Vol. 42; no. 4; pp. 349 - 380 |
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