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Further Steps towards a Theory of Descriptions as Predicates
Analytic Philosophy Pub Date : 2016-04-18 , DOI: 10.1111/phib.12076
Delia Graff Fara 1
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Descriptions are predicates. Here, I'll take this to mean either of two basically equivalent things: that they have extensions as their semantic values, sets of entities, in the broadest sense; or that they have type-〈e,t〉 functions as their semantic values, functions from entities, in the broadest sense, to truth values. An entity in the broadest sense is anything that can be the subject of a first-order predication. Examples are individuals (such as my cat Trinidad), pluralities (such as my cats Trinidad, Seneca, and Seymour), masses (such as some cat food), and kinds (such as the cat breed korat). Here I'm including entities in this broadest sense because my thesis that descriptions are predicates applies to all sorts of descriptions: singular descriptions (‘the cat’), plural definite descriptions (‘the cats’), mass descriptions (‘the cat food’), kind descriptions (‘the korat’), and indefinite descriptions as well.

中文翻译:

将描述作为谓词的理论的进一步发展

描述是谓词。在这里,我将这意味着两个基本等效的事物中的任何一个:在最广泛的意义上,它们具有扩展作为其语义值、实体集;或者它们有 type-<e,t> 函数作为它们的语义值,从最广泛意义上的实体到真值的函数。最广泛意义上的实体是可以成为一阶谓词的主题的任何事物。示例是个体(例如我的猫 Trinidad)、复数(例如我的猫 Trinidad、Seneca 和 Seymour)、群体(例如某些猫粮)和种类(例如猫品种 korat)。在这里,我在最广泛的意义上包括实体,因为我的论点描述是谓词适用于所有类型的描述:单数描述(“猫”),复数确定描述(“猫”),
更新日期:2016-04-18
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