Indeterminacy and reference: comments on Roads to Reference
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DOI: 10.1007/s11098-021-01681-6
Abstract: Roads to Reference: An Essay on Reference Fixing in Natural Language by Mario Gómez-Torrente provides an ample attack against certain more recent variants of descriptivism in the theory of reference. The book discusses a wide… read more here.
Keywords: natural kind; roads reference; reference; kind terms ... See more keywords
Tolerance, flexibility and the application of kind terms
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DOI: 10.1007/s11229-018-01898-9
Abstract: We explore two ways of distinguishing the semantic operation of kind terms. First, we focus on a distinction between terms with a flexible versus terms with an inflexible semantics. Flexibility depends on whether some changes… read more here.
Keywords: application; kind terms; tolerance flexibility; flexibility ... See more keywords
A dilemma about kinds and kind terms
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DOI: 10.1007/s11229-019-02278-7
Abstract: Abstract‘The kind Lion’ denotes a kind. Yet many generics are thought to denote kinds also, like the subject-terms in ‘The lion has a mane’, ‘Dinosaurs are extinct’, and ‘The potato was cultivated in Ireland by… read more here.
Keywords: kind; kind terms; dilemma kinds; kinds kind ... See more keywords