The Role of'Denotatur' in Ockham's Theory of Supposition.
In the scholarship on medieval logic and semantics of the last decades, Ockham's the-ory of supposition is probably the most extensively studied version of such theories; yet, it seems that we still do not fully understand all its intricacies. In this paper, I focus on a phrase that occurs countless...
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2013
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