Titlebook: Denying Existence; The Logic, Epistemol Arindam Chakrabarti Book 1997 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1997 discourse.language.log

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Stimulerende middelen: Amfetamine,: Existence which belongs to all that there is can still be meaningfully denied of some specific targets of linguistic reference. This is possible because on special occasions we — the speaker—hearers of language — can together switch our pragmatic (or, if you like, illocutionary) gears in between p

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1223-1discourse; language; logic; philosophy of language; philosophy of logic; pragmatics; semantic

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Deeper Troubles with Fiction: Reference, Emotion and Indeterminacy,In the previous chapter we have tried to explore ways of resolving problems concerning, first, the meaning and, then, the truth-value of fictive and fictional utterances.

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The Scaffolding for a Solution, datable individuals. Let us call this game “.”. to signify its primacy, which, if not ontologically uncontroversial, is at least intuitive. The original psychological roots of reference can surely be traced back to this game. Its . items would be concrete spatio-temporal particulars such as books,

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The Logical form of Existence-Assertions,s. (See claim 2 of my initial layout of the puzzle in the Introduction). The most popular way of dissolving the problem, therefore, is to appeal to the worn-out slogan: “Existence is not a predicate.” In this chapter I shall try to expose several ambiguities in this slogan, and then rebut the standa

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Singular Death-Sentences,ality of certain items which are talked or written about, believed in, dreamt of or depicted, but also to report demise or extinction. That the existence-predicate serves to express two quite easily distinguishable concepts in these two kinds of use can be made clear by two simple idiomatic expansio

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