Against predicativism about names

Jeonggyu Lee

doi:10.1007/s11098-018-1187-3

Against predicativism about names

Jeonggyu Lee

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According to predicativism about names, names which occur in argument positions have the same type of semantic contents as predicates. In this paper, I shall argue that these bare singular names do not have the same type of semantic contents as predicates. I will present three objections to predicativism—the modal, the epistemic, and the translation objections—and show that they succeed even against the more sophisticated versions of predicativism defended by Fara and Bach.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	243-261
Number of pages	19
Journal	Philosophical Studies
Volume	177
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-018-1187-3
State	Published - 1 Jan 2020
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Definite description
Name
Predicativism
Referentialism
Rigidity
Translation

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