Proper names as counterpart‐theoretic individual concepts.
Many philosophers and linguists have been attracted to counterpart theory as a framework for natural language semantics. I raise a novel problem for counterpart theory involving simple declarative sentences with proper names. To resolve this problem, counterpart theorists must introduce the notion o...
| Published in: | Philosophy & Phenomenological Research Vol. 110; no. 3; pp. 1152 - 1182 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
May2025
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