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Names and name-bearing: An essay on the predicate view of names.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
書名/作者:	Names and name-bearing: An essay on the predicate view of names.
作者:	Gray, Aidan.
面頁冊數:	188 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-01(E), Section: A, page: .
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International74-01(E)A.
標題:	Philosophy.
標題:	Language, General.
ISBN:	9781267603746
摘要、提要註:	According to the dominant approach in semantics, proper names are semantically-simple referential terms. This view does not sit comfortably with the fact that: 1) there are natural languages in which proper names always occur in the syntactic place of a predicate and 2) even in a language like English in which proper names seem to occur as simple referential expressions (as in 'Alfred is in the kitchen baking pies') they also occur in the role of a predicate (e.g. in 'Three different Alfreds have fallen down this well'). There is a strong temptation, given the supposed simplicity and power of the orthodox approach, to try to explain away these recalcitrant phenomena (perhaps by positing an ambiguity). I argue that this would be a mistake. The basic meaning of a proper name is predicative - 'Alfred' expresses the property of bearing the name 'Alfred'. I develop an account of these metalinguistic properties which both dispels the air of circularity associated with this approach and explains the role that proper names play in discourse. The upshot is a new appreciation of the challenges, as well as the potential insights, associated with fully integrating traditional questions in the philosophy of language with theoretical linguistics, and a new conception of the traditional philosophical puzzles associated with names.
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Names and name-bearing: An essay on the predicate view of names.
Gray, Aidan.

Names and name-bearing: An essay on the predicate view of names. - 188 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-01(E), Section: A, page: .

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 2012.

According to the dominant approach in semantics, proper names are semantically-simple referential terms. This view does not sit comfortably with the fact that: 1) there are natural languages in which proper names always occur in the syntactic place of a predicate and 2) even in a language like English in which proper names seem to occur as simple referential expressions (as in 'Alfred is in the kitchen baking pies') they also occur in the role of a predicate (e.g. in 'Three different Alfreds have fallen down this well'). There is a strong temptation, given the supposed simplicity and power of the orthodox approach, to try to explain away these recalcitrant phenomena (perhaps by positing an ambiguity). I argue that this would be a mistake. The basic meaning of a proper name is predicative - 'Alfred' expresses the property of bearing the name 'Alfred'. I develop an account of these metalinguistic properties which both dispels the air of circularity associated with this approach and explains the role that proper names play in discourse. The upshot is a new appreciation of the challenges, as well as the potential insights, associated with fully integrating traditional questions in the philosophy of language with theoretical linguistics, and a new conception of the traditional philosophical puzzles associated with names.

ISBN: 9781267603746Subjects--Topical Terms:

179430
Philosophy.

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