A Lemma from Nowhere

Critica 52 (154):11-47 (2020)
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This paper uses cases involving empty singular terms (on the one hand, cases of what I call “accidental aboutness-failure”; on the other, cases involving proper names occurring in fictions) to argue for a claim about the goal of ordinary belief-forming activity, and shows how this claim generates new foundations for the theory of reference.

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10.22201/iifs.18704905e.2020.1173

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The Varieties of Reference.Gareth Evans - 1982 - Oxford: Oxford University Press. Edited by John Henry McDowell.
Actions, Reasons, and Causes.Donald Davidson - 1963 - Journal of Philosophy 60 (23):685.
Reference and Consciousness.John Campbell - 2002 - Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.

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