"That"-clauses and propositional anaphors

Philosophical Studies 177 (10):2861-2875 (2020)
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This paper argues that "that"-clauses do not reference propositions because they are not intersubstitutible with other expressions that do reference propositions. In particular, "that"-clauses are shown to not be intersubstitutible with propositional anaphors like "so." The substitution failures are further argued to support a semantics on which "that"-clauses are predicates.

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Peter van Elswyk
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