HOW DO WE USE DEFINITE DESCRIPTIONS TO EXPRESS SINGULAR PROPOSITIONS?

The paper is devoted to the question: under what conditions do we express a singular proposition (in the Kaplanian sense) when uttering a sentence containing a definite description as the subject term. It is argued that Wettstein's claim that singularity of a proposition is determined by the demonst...

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Publicado en:	Problems / Problemos Vol. 85; pp. 130 - 141
Autor principal:	Borisov, Evgeny
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Vilnius University 2014
Materias:	Description (Philosophy) Proposition (Logic) Sentences (Grammar) Inconsistency (Logic) Semantics (Philosophy) Reference (Philosophy)
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