An Ontology of Words.
Words are indispensable linguistic tools for beings like us. However, there is not much philosophical work done about what words really are. In this paper, I develop a new ontology for words. I argue that (a) words are abstract artifacts that are created to fulfill various kinds of purposes, and (b)...
| Publicado en: | Erkenntnis Vol. 84; no. 5; pp. 1139 - 1159 |
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