Singular Reference: The Turn to Propositional Thinking.
The ability to refer to objects – singular reference – is arguably the decisive innovation on the way to human propositional cognition. This article argues that object individuation requires singular reference because basic singular terms, namely spatial indexicals, provide a symbolic frame of refer...
| Publicado en: | Grazer Philosophische Studien Vol. 99; no. 2; pp. 159 - 186 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2022
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