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By Arthur Sullivan

ISBN-10: 0415634008

ISBN-13: 9780415634007

ISBN-10: 1138062634

ISBN-13: 9781138062634

This volume investigates the right contours of the connections among foundational ideas: reference (the technique of semantically expressing singular or object-dependent info) and constitution (the having or missing of significant sub-parts). Sullivan exhibits that the proposal of constitution, accurately excavated, underlies and grounds numerous details within the thought of reference. As such, this paintings builds on and extra develops paintings via Bertrand Russell, Saul Kripke, David Kaplan, and Stephen Neale – largely, between many others.



Sullivan goals to obviously determine the intrinsic connections among constitution and reference, which brings into concentration informative and explanatory connections underlying differently disparate debates approximately a variety of facets of linguistic conversation. the general result's an easy, entire lens that could aid to elucidate quite a lot of semantic phenomena.

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