Number Words and Ontological Commitment

Philosophical Quarterly 57 (226):1–20 (2007)
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Abstract

With the aid of some results from current linguistic theory I examine a recent anti-Fregean line with respect to hybrid talk of numbers and ordinary things, such as ‘the number of moons of Jupiter is four’. I conclude that the anti-Fregean line with respect to these sentences is indefensible.

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Berit Brogaard
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