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In this paper, I aim to discuss what puns, metaphysically, are. I argue that the type-token view of words leads to an indeterminacy problem when we consider puns. I then outline an alternative account of puns, based on recent nominalist views of words, that does not suffer from this indeterminacy.The Metaphysics of PunsSynthese (5): 1-17. 2024. -
Arthur Prior's Proofs of the Necessities of Identity and DifferenceHistory and Philosophy of Logic 1-6. forthcoming.This paper draws attention to a proof of the necessity of identity given by Arthur Prior. In its simplicity, it is comparable to a proof of Quine's, popularised by Kripke, but it is slightly different. Prior's Polish notation is transcribed into a more familiar idiom. Prior's proof is followed by a proof of the necessity of difference, possibly the first such proof in the literature, which is also repeated here and transcribed. The paper concludes with a brief discussion of Prior's views on iden…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
| Metaphysics |
| Logic and Philosophy of Logic |
| Aristotle |
| Philosophy of Linguistics |