No Reference Without Referents

  • Eduardo Garcia Ramírez Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
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Parole chiave: homogeneous semantics, truth conditions, cognitivism.

Abstract

Sainsbury 2005 and 2009 offers a theory of empty names that purports to account for the content and truth-value of all utterances involving them. The goal is to do this while offering a homogenous semantic treatment: both empty and nonempty names make the same kind of contribution to truth-values. The account is based on a new theory of reference that purports to be an alternative among nondescriptivist accounts. According to the new theory, there is reference even without referents. In this paper I argue that the theory does not offer a homogeneous semantics for names and that, thus, it fails to offer a more satisfactory alternative to the theories already available. I conclude by briefly describing a way in which a theory could in fact offer such homogeneous semantics for names via a cognitive theory of empty names.
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Pubblicato
2016-10-20
Come citare
Garcia Ramírez, E. (2016). No Reference Without Referents. Revista de Filosofía, 41(2), 211-226. https://doi.org/10.5209/RESF.53951
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