Predelli

Proper Names

A Millian Account

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Buch. Hardcover

2017

176 S.

In englischer Sprache

Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-877815-8

Format (B x L): 14,3 x 22,3 cm

Gewicht: 326 g

Produktbeschreibung

Proper Names explores the aims and scope of the Millian approach to the semantics of proper names. Stefano Predelli covers the core semantic aspects of Millianism, and develops them against the background of an independently motivated pre-semantic picture, grounded on the distinction between meaning and use. Accordingly, the volume defends Millianism from certain popular misconceptions and criticisms, it highlights its explanatory potential, and it tackles a
variety of traditional philosophical problems from its viewpoint. In particular, Predelli discusses the relationships between co-referential names, the issue of non truth-conditional meaning for proper names, the role of onomastics in a theory of the use of names, the phenomenon of empty names, cases of
so-called fictional names and names from myth and false scientific theories, and apparently predicative uses of proper names.