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Names as Devices of Explicit Co-reference

Kenneth A. Taylor

Erkenntnis 80 (S2):235-262 (2015)

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Frege’s puzzle is here to stay: Triviality and informativity in natural languages.Matheus Valente & Emiliano Boccardi - 2020 - Manuscrito 43 (1):115-150.details Frege’s puzzling remarks on the beginning of On Sense and Reference challenge us to explain how true identity sentences of the form a = a can differ in cognitive value from sentences of the form a = b when they are made true by the same object’s self-identity. Some philosophers (e.g. Almog, Glezakos and Paganini) suggest that the puzzle cannot be set up in the context of natural languages since natural sentences, unlike those of regimented formal ones, do not wear (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Russellians can solve the problem of empty names with nonsingular propositions.Thomas Hodgson - 2020 - Synthese 197:5411–5433.details Views that treat the contents of sentences as structured, Russellian propositions face a problem with empty names. It seems that those sorts of things cannot be the contents of sentences containing such names. I motivate and defend a solution to the problem according to which a sentence may have a singular proposition as its content at one time, and a nonsingular one at another. When the name is empty the content is a nonsingular Russellian structured proposition; when the name is (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation

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