Russellians can have a no proposition view of empty names

Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 61 (7):670-691 (2018)
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Russellians can have a no proposition view of empty names. I will defend this theory against the problem of meaningfulness, and show that the theory is in general well motivated. My solution to the problem of meaningfulness is that speakers’ judgements about meaningfulness are tracking grammaticality, and not propositional content.

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10.1080/0020174x.2017.1372307

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Referencia - preprint.Genoveva Martí - forthcoming - In Temas de Filosofía del Lenguaje.
Russellians should have a no proposition view of empty names.Thomas Hodgson - 2022 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy.

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