... that Predicativism does not have this consequence by showing that incomplete definite descriptions in general and incomplete denuded descriptions, such as ‘Ø the Ivan’, in particular are rigid designators. The same holds for other modal sentences like (88): (92) The party might have been fun. (True...

...’ or ‘tomorrow4 Moreover, according to Kaplan, demonstrations function rather like context-dependent definite descriptions: when performed (“mounted”) in a particular context, a demonstration takes on a representational content that determines an object with respect to a possible circumstance. Which content...

... “the author of Waverley” contributes no propositional constituent to the proposition expressed by [A]. This theory maintains that all definite descriptions are “incomplete symbols,” meaning thereby that they have no meaning in isolation but are merely defined in context (compare Russell and Whitehead 1990...

... and the interdependency theses. The first states that being and causality are linked: “what it is to be the basic essence of a thing is (inter alia) to be a per se cause of a given type” (257). The second thesis states that our definitional and explanatory practices would be incomplete if they did not draw on one...

...; and the incomplete exposition must precede the complete one. Consequently, we can infer a good deal from a few characteristics, derived from an incomplete analysis, without having yet reached the complete exposition, that is, the definition. In short, the definition in all its precision and clarity ought...

... a common semantic feature as a result of which they exhibit the same differences in behavior with definite descriptions is unaffected. Hence, the evidence that all occurrences of complex demonstratives share a uni- fied semantics (contrary to the +DRCD that is the conjunction of DRCD and the claim...

... the distinction between objective chance and epistemic probability, relative to the higher level . However, incomplete information about a system's lower-level state is not the only reason for using higher-level descriptions. Arguably, whether or not we could acquire complete information about the lower-level...

... to the state of the discourse itself. The resulting account is applied to a number of ways of exploiting the lying-misleading distinction, involving conversational implicature, incompleteness, presuppositions, and prosodic focus. The essay shows that assertion, and hence lying, is preserved from subquestion...

... claims according to the Born rule (setting one's credence about an empirically significant magnitude claim to be the squared modulo of the appropriate wave function). Descriptions of nature: none of the above, except for the magnitude claims, describes anything in nature. However, magnitude claims...

... instance for G. And it is this latter condition that is usually associated with the definition of ‘indefinitely extensible’. It's a vestige of the definition's origin in Dummett's intuitionistic interpretation of the paradoxes of set theory. Russell's Paradox and the Burali-Forti paradox, for instance...

... believe that Matushansky and Fara, following Sloat, have incorrectly and incompletely discerned the syntactic data. Here I confine my discussion to just one problem with their data—an ungrammaticality judgment regarding certain sentences containing the definite article. 3 It marks a fundamental problem...

...- matics reduces to logic. I intend this in a pre-theoretical, neutral sense that allows that these expressions may function in different ways semantically while ultimately designating the same thing—in the way in which, for example, a definite description and a name function dif- ferently (in my view...

..., this might come apart from a definition in terms of minimality among the class of metaphysical possibilities. For example, on a view on which it is necessary but not a priori that God exists, ‘God exists’ might be entailed by P conjoined with an assertion of metaphysical minimality, but not conjoined...

... with, then, is not the self of self-love , but the morally corrupt self of self-conceit . Though Papish appears to embrace this problematic conclusion, I think it is avoidable. In my own work ( DeWitt 2018 ), I show that we can get to the relevant aspects of the self directly through Kant's definition of pleasure. He...

... to the description theory (“descriptivism names are seman- tic kin to definite descriptions.3 Others (such as Burge [1973]) have 1. The name ‘Ernest’ occurring in the construction is mentioned rather than used. 2. See also Grice 1969, Donnellan 1974, Salmon...

... possible objections. The objection that the argument is not telling against the assumption of clo- sure under entailment, but rather that it exhibits confirmation theory’s still incomplete grasp of the notion of relevant evidence is not among them. To see that this might be the problem indeed, consider...

... possible objections. The objection that the argument is not telling against the assumption of clo- sure under entailment, but rather that it exhibits confirmation theory’s still incomplete grasp of the notion of relevant evidence is not among them. To see that this might be the problem indeed, consider...

... possible objections. The objection that the argument is not telling against the assumption of clo- sure under entailment, but rather that it exhibits confirmation theory’s still incomplete grasp of the notion of relevant evidence is not among them. To see that this might be the problem indeed, consider...

... possible objections. The objection that the argument is not telling against the assumption of clo- sure under entailment, but rather that it exhibits confirmation theory’s still incomplete grasp of the notion of relevant evidence is not among them. To see that this might be the problem indeed, consider...

..., but rather that it exhibits confirmation theory’s still incomplete grasp of the notion of relevant evidence is not among them. To see that this might be the problem indeed, consider the following. You are fin- ishing a book. Although you have the feeling that you should do some more research on each...