Ontology, Reference, and the Qua Problem: Amie Thomasson on Existence

Axiomathes 23 (3):543-550 (2013)
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I argue that Amie Thomasson’s recent theory of the methodology to be applied to find the truth-conditions for claims of existence faces serious objections. Her account is based on Devitt and Sterelny’s solution to the qua problem for theories of reference fixing; however, such a solution cannot be also applied to analyze existential claims

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The Varieties of Reference.Gareth Evans - 1982 - Oxford: Oxford University Press. Edited by John Henry McDowell.
Ordinary Objects.Amie L. Thomasson (ed.) - 2007 - New York: Oxford University Press.
Designation.Michael Devitt - 1981 - New York: Columbia University Press.
Language and reality: an introduction to the philosophy of language.Michael Devitt & Kim Sterelny - 1999 - Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. Edited by Kim Sterelny.

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