Empty Names and Pragmatic Implicatures

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Sep 2007 English Publisher:Cambridge University Press (CUP)Journal:Canadian Journal of Philosophy, volume 37, pages 449-461 (issn: 0045-5091, eissn: 1911-0820,

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Authors: Fred Adams; Gary Fuller;

doi: 10.1353/cjp.2007.0024

Empty Names and Pragmatic Implicatures

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What are the meanings of empty names such as ‘Vulcan,’ ‘Pegasus,’ and ‘Santa Claus’ in such sentences as ‘Vulcan is the tenth planet,’ ‘Pegasus flies,’ and especially ‘Santa Claus does not exist’?Our view, developed in Adams et al. (1992, 1994, 1997, 2004), consists of a direct-reference account of the meaning of empty names in combination with a pragmatic-implicature account of why we have certain intuitions that seem to conflict with a direct-reference account.

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