 | Aspects of a Theory of Singular Reference: Prolegomena to a Dialectical Logic of Singular Terms Subjects: Humanities; Language & Literature; Philosophy; Language & Linguistics; History of Philosophy; Logic - Philosophy; Philosophy of Language; Grammar Syntax & Linguistic Structure; Linguistics; Originally published in 1985. This study concerns the problem of treating identity as a relation between an object and itself. It addresses the Russellian and Fregean solutions and goes on to present in the first part a surfacist account of belief-context ambiguity requiring neither differences in relative scope nor distinctions between sense and reference. The second part offers an account of negative existentials, necessity and identity-statements which resolves problems unlike the Russell-Frege analyses. This is a detailed work in linguistics and philosophy. |
