Simple Sentences
Jennifer M. Saul “Simple Sentences"
Oxford University Press, USA | 2007-06-21 | ISBN: 019921915X | 176 pages | PDF | 1,4 Mb
Oxford University Press, USA | 2007-06-21 | ISBN: 019921915X | 176 pages | PDF | 1,4 Mb
The phenomenon of substitution failure is a longstanding focus of discussion for philosophers of language. Substitution failure occurs when a change from one co-referential name to another (e.g. from "Superman" to "Clark Kent") affects the truth-value of a sentence. Jennifer Saul has shown
that this can occur even in the simplest of sentences. She presents the first full-length treatment of this puzzling feature of language, and explores its implications for the theory of reference and names, and for the methodology of semantics.
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