Who’s afraid of the predicate theory of names?

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Who’s afraid of the predicate theory of names?

This essay is devoted to an analysis of the semantic significance of a fashionable view of proper names, the Predicate Theory of names (PT), typically developed in the direction of the Metalinguistic Theory of names (MT). According to MT, ‘syntactic evidence supports the conclusion that a name such...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Predelli, Stefano
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer 2015
Subjects:	Names ; Descriptivism ; Millianism ; Direct Reference
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/33736/

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