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Tuesday, 22 April 2014

Facts and Granularity

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We have already noted that (it is natural to say that) the fact that Clark Kent is Superman is distinct from the fact that Clark Kent is Cl...
Sunday, 13 April 2014

Facts: The Object-Property-Relation Model

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While the notion of a fact is not itself central to the main accounts I have been developing (e.g. of names, of necessity, analyticity and ...
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Thursday, 20 March 2014

Empty Names and Negative Existentials

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Singular negative existential propositions such as 'Santa Claus does not exist' can be made to look puzzling without any explicit th...
Monday, 3 March 2014

Kripke's Puzzle and Semantic Granularity

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( Added October 2016 : my most up-to-date treatment of granularity can be found in Chapter 6 of my  PhD thesis . This is an early, undevelop...
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Monday, 6 January 2014

Propositions: A Neo-Wittgensteinian Approach

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( Added October 2016 : my most up-to-date treatment of propositions can be found in Chapter 6 of my  PhD thesis . This is an early, undevel...
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Thursday, 19 December 2013

Sidelle and the Contingency of Conventions: An Objection Regained

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This is a draft of a paper. Alan Sidelle's conventionalism about modality is well-known, and only a bit less of a whipping-boy than th...
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Wednesday, 13 November 2013

Names: Between Mill and Frege

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Followup posts:  Empty Names and Negative Existentials Names and the Articulation Assumption Names and the Publicity of Meaning ( Ad...
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