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A Defence of the Predicate View of Proper Names
A Defence of the Predicate View of Proper Names // Contemporary Philosophical Issues: Man and World
Rijeka, Hrvatska, 2011. (predavanje, domaća recenzija, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni)
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Naslov
A Defence of the Predicate View of Proper Names
Autori
Dožudić, Dušan
Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni
Skup
Contemporary Philosophical Issues: Man and World
Mjesto i datum
Rijeka, Hrvatska, 20.05.2011. - 21.05.2011
Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje
Vrsta recenzije
Domaća recenzija
Ključne riječi
Böer; Burge; the predicate view; proper names; reference
Sažetak
In this paper I defend Tyler Burge‘s predicate view of proper names (set forth in his ―Reference and Proper Names‖) against the objection offered by Steven E. Boër (in ―Proper Names as Predicates‖). Boër argues that, even if proper names are predicates, Burge‘s predicate view cannot be the correct one, because it does not adequately covers all types of proper names. Most notably, it does not cover family names. As a consequence, Burge would predict wrong truth-conditions for a number of sentences embedding family names, such as ―Joe Romanov is not a Romanov, ‖ ―Waldo Cox is a Romanov, ‖ ―Fred Smith is not a Smith after all, he is a Jones, ‖ or ―Billy Jones is in reality a Smith.‖ For example, Boër thinks that ―Joe Romanov is not a Romanov‖ could turn out to be true. But, according to Burge, names, just as any other predicate, have an application condition, and from that condition it follows that ―Joe Romanov is not a Romanov‖ must be false (just as ―This dog is not a dog‖ must). So, if Boër‘s is right, Burge must be wrong. I discuss some attempts to meet Boër‘s objection, and I conclude that it rests on fallacious assumptions. Boër‘s observations concerning the sentences are not semantically relevant, and they reveal nothing relevant about truth-conditions of those sentences. Boër‘s observations are at most pragmatically relevant ; it takes a lot of stage setting, non-linguistic knowledge, and calculation, to hear such sentences as true. If so, Boër‘s criticism does not undermine Burge‘s predicate view, which was intended as a semantical theory of proper names.
Izvorni jezik
Engleski
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