Deferred reference, meaning transfer or coercion? Toward a new principle of accounting for systematic uses of proper names.
Proper names are typically considered to be devices of individual reference. Since Frege (1882), the debate has mainly concerned the proper semantic characteristics of this individual reference. Burge (J Philos 70:425–439, 1973) challenged this focus by highlighting the predicative uses of proper na...
| Published in: | Synthese Vol. 204; no. 2; pp. 1 - 40 |
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Springer Nature
Aug2024
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