Reference to ad hoc kinds.
Although there is no consensus about what kinds are, there is a common understanding that kinds can be regarded as collections of objects that share certain properties. What these properties exactly are is often left unspecified. This paper explores the semantics of ad hoc kind-referring terms, wher...
| Publicado en: | Linguistics & Philosophy Vol. 43; no. 6; pp. 589 - 632 |
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