What Fa says about a

Dialectica 54 (1):3-28 (2000)
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A sentence mentioning an object can be regarded as saying any one of several things about that object, without there by being ambiguous. Some of the repercussions of this commonplace observation are recorded, and some critical discussion is provided of views which would appear to go against it.

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10.1111/dltc.2000.54.issue-1

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