SOME REMARKS ON THE MILL - FREGE THEORY OF NAMES

• Authors: Lo Guercio Nicolás
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In a recent paper García - Carpintero (2017) argues that proper names possess, in addition to their standard referential truth conditional content, metalinguistic descriptive senses which take part in semantic presuppositions. The aim of this article is twofold. In the first part the author presents an argument against García - Carpintero’s presupposition view, which he calls the collapse argument. In short, he argues that the view has the unwelcome consequence of making contexts of use and felicitous contexts of use collapse. If this is correct, a presupposition account of the metalinguistic descriptions allegedly associated with proper names proves incorrect. In the second part the author sketches an alternative Millian strategy which is able to account for the evidence which allegedly supports the presupposition view.

Keywords

EN

PRAGMATICS; PRESUPPOSITION; PROPER NAMES; SEMANTICS; GARCÍA - CARPINTERO

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
• Journal: Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 25
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 442 – 455

Contributors

author

Lo Guercio Nicolás

• Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas (IIF), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Pte. Luis Sánez Peña 1177, (1110), Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina