Praedicaturi supponimus. Is Gilbert of Poitiers' approach to the problem of linguistic reference a pragmatic one?

The article investigates how the problem of (linguistic) reference is treated in Gilbert of Poitiers' Commentaries on Boethius' Opuscula sacra. In this text the terms supponere, suppositus,-a,-um, and suppositio mainly concern the act of a speaker (or of the author of a written text) that consists o...

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Publicado en:Vivarium Vol. 49; no. 1-3; pp. 50 - 75
Autor principal: Valente, Luisa
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Publicado: Brill Academic Publishers 2011
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