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275A Meinongian Analysis of Fictional ObjectsGrazer Philosophische Studien 1 (1): 73-86. 1975.This paper explores the view that there are such things as (nonexistent) fictional objects, and that we refer to such objects when we say things like "Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective", or "Conan Doyle wrote about Sherlock Holmes". A theory of such objects is developed as a special application of a Meinongian Ontology.
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Billingham and Buridan on the foundations of syllogistic reasoningIn Christoph Kann, Benedikt Löewe, Christian Rode & Sara Liana Uckelman (eds.), Modern views of medieval logic, Peeters. 2018.
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38 The Power of Medieval LogicIn Charles Bolyard & Rondo Keele (eds.), Later Medieval Metaphysics: Ontology, Language, and Logic, Fordham University Press. pp. 188-205. 2013.
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93A course in semanticsMIT Press. 2019.An introductory text in linguistic semantics, uniquely balancing empirical coverage and formalism with development of intuition and methodology. This introductory textbook in linguistic semantics for undergraduates features a unique balance between empirical coverage and formalism on the one hand and development of intuition and methodology on the other. It will equip students to form intuitions about a set of data, explain how well an analysis of the data accords with their intuitions, and exte…Read more
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47Formal Philosophy: Selected Papers of Richard Montague (review)Journal of Philosophy 72 (7): 196-203. 1975.
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3Indeterminate Identity: Metaphysics and Semantics (review)Philosophical Quarterly 52 (207): 262-265. 2002.
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50A Meinongian Analysis of Fictional ObjectsGrazer Philosophische Studien 1 (1): 73-86. 1975.This paper explores the view that there are such things as (nonexistent) fictional objects, and that we refer to such objects when we say things like "Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective", or "Conan Doyle wrote about Sherlock Holmes". A theory of such objects is developed as a special application of a Meinongian Ontology.
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21X*—Worldly Indeterminacy of IdentityProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 95 (1): 171-192. 1995.Terence Parsons, Peter Woodruff; X*—Worldly Indeterminacy of Identity, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 95, Issue 1, 1 June 1995, Pages 171–192
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35Exploring Meinong's Jungle and Beyond by Richard Routley (review)Journal of Philosophy 80 (3): 173-179. 1983.
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15Russell's Early Views on DenotingIn D. F. Austin (ed.), Philosophical Analysis, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 17--44. 1988.
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178Frege's Hierarchies of Indirect Senses and the Paradox of AnalysisMidwest Studies in Philosophy 6 (1): 37-58. 1981.
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12Modifiers and Quantifiers in Natural LanguageCanadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume 6 (n/a): 29-60. 1980.This paper has two parts. In part I, I review two older accounts of the logical forms of modifiers, and suggest that they may be combined with each other so as to yield a theory that is better than either of its parts taken singly. Part of this theory involves the idea that certain sentences refer to events, states, or processes; Part II of this paper shows how to use this idea to account for tenses and temporal adverbials, and offers a new account of ordinary language quantification.
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51The doctrine of distributionHistory and Philosophy of Logic 27 (1): 59-74. 2006.Peter Geach describes the 'doctrine of distribution' as the view that a term is distributed if it refers to everything that it denotes, and undistributed if it refers to only some of the things that it denotes. He argues that the notion, so explained, is incoherent. He claims that the doctrine of distribution originates from a degenerate use of the notion of ?distributive supposition? in medieval supposition theory sometime in the 16th century. This paper proposes instead that the doctrine of di…Read more
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54What do quotation marks name? Frege's theories of quotations and that-clausesPhilosophical Studies 42 (3). 1982.
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16Cresswell M. J.. The interpretation of some Lewis systems of modal logic. The Australasian journal of philosophy, vol. 45 , pp. 198–206 (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 37 (2): 417-418. 1972.
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152True ContradictionsCanadian Journal of Philosophy 20 (3). 1990.In In Contradiction, Graham Priest shows, as clearly as anything like this can be shown, that it is coherent to maintain that some sentences can be both true and false at the same time. As a consequence, some contradictions are true, and an appreciation of this possibility advances our understanding of the nature of logic and language.
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316Nonexistent ObjectsYale University Press. 1980.In this book Terence Parsons revives the older tradition of taking such objects at face value. Using various modern techniques from logic and the philosophy of language, he formulates a metaphysical theory of nonexistent objects. The theory is given a formalization in symbolism rich enough to contain definite descriptions, modal operators, and epistemic contexts, and the book includes a discussion which relates the formalized theory explicitly to English.
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14II*—Underlying States in the Semantical Analysis of EnglishProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 88 (1): 13-30. 1988.Terence Parsons; II*—Underlying States in the Semantical Analysis of English, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 88, Issue 1, 1 June 1988, Pages 13.
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