Names vs nouns.
This paper takes issue with the predicativist's identification of proper names and common count nouns. Although Predicativism emerges precisely to account for certain syntactic facts about proper names, namely, that they behave like common count nouns on occasions, it seems clear that proper names a...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Studies Vol. 179; no. 11; pp. 3233 - 3259 |
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