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Review of Dolf Rami's 'Names and Context: A Use-Sensitive Philosophical Account': Bloomsbury Academic: London. 2022. Xi + 288 pp. £76.50 (hardback).
- Source :
- Erkenntnis; Mar2024, Vol. 89 Issue 3, p1269-1273, 5p
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- This article is a review of Dolf Rami's book "Names and Context: A Use-Sensitive Philosophical Account." The book explores the semantics of names and argues for a new "Use-sensitive" account that views names as primarily singular terms with their own unique semantics. The book addresses various challenges and discusses the referential and non-referential uses of names, as well as the determination of their referents. It also introduces the distinction between truth-conditional and use-conditional meaning in the semantic debate on names. While the book provides a comprehensive analysis of name uses and defends the Millian orthodoxy, it could have delved deeper into certain philosophical questions and issues. [Extracted from the article]
- Subjects :
- LINGUISTIC context
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01650106
- Volume :
- 89
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Erkenntnis
- Publication Type :
- Review
- Accession number :
- 176994867
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-022-00579-x