The importance of 'being earnest'

Philosophical Quarterly 57 (226):40-55 (2007)
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Abstract

Reference to properties is normally achieved by the use of nominalizations of predicative expressions. I examine the relation between different kinds of these: while, traditionally, the terms 'wisdom' and 'the property of being wise' were thought to be co-referential, in certain contexts they do not seem to be interchangeable salva veritate. Observing this, Friederike Moltmann claims that abstract nouns such as 'wisdom' do not refer to properties. I argue that her theory is flawed and that the existence of the problematic contexts should be explained in non-referential terms

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Nominalizing quantifiers.Friederike Moltmann - 2003 - Journal of Philosophical Logic 32 (5):445-481.
The particularisation of attributes.Jerrold Levinson - 1980 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 58 (2):102 – 115.
Properties and related entities.Jerrold Levinson - 1978 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 39 (1):1-22.

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