There are no uninstantiated words

Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy (2022)
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Kaplan (1990; 2011) argues that there are no unspoken words. Hawthorne and Lepore (2011) put forward examples that purport to show that there can be such words. Here, I argue that Kaplan is correct, if we grant him a minor variation. While Hawthorne and Lepore might be right that there can be unspoken words, I will argue that they fail to show that there can be uninstantiated words.

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An Ontology of Words.Nurbay Irmak - 2019 - Erkenntnis 84 (5):1139-1158.
A Bundle Theory of Words.J. T. M. Miller - 2021 - Synthese 198 (6):5731–5748.
Words on words.David Kaplan - 2011 - Journal of Philosophy 108 (9):504-529.

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