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Philosophy of Language
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| 72)
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452
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Translation
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241
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34
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Russellian and Direct Reference Theories of Meaning
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23
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Brian Rabern
Millian Theories of Names
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32
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Gary Ostertag
Singular Propositions
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Structured Propositions
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22
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Semantic Theories
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452
| 140)
Conceptual Semantics
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7
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4
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241
| 73)
Alex Radulescu
Possible World Semantics
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58
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Mark Jago
Justificationist Semantics
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0
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Relevance Theory
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27
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Russellian and Direct Reference Theories of Meaning
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112
| 90)
Situation Semantics
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14
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Truth-Conditional Theories
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71
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Joseph S Fulda
Two-Dimensional Semantics
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71
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David Chalmers
Type-Theoretic Semantics
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7
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162
| 3)
Dynamic Semantics
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55
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Daniel Rothschild
Semantic Theories, Misc
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Robert Rupert
Meaning, Misc
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213
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Reference
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503
| 84)
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180
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Descriptive Theories of Reference
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112
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25
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Aspects of Reference
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156
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Empty Names
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32
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Intension and Extension
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Nonreferring Expressions
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Reference Failure
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1
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Rigid Designation
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17
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Speaker Meaning and Semantic Meaning
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15
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16
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Reference, Misc
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83
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762
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74
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Feminist Philosophy of Language
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Use and Mention
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Moore's Paradox
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315
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298
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Hidden-Indexical Theories of Attitude Ascriptions
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19
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Gary Ostertag
Predicates and Context-Dependence
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19
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Jonny McIntosh
Context and Context-Dependence, Misc
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92
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Brian Rabern
Discourse Representation
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67
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Implicature
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112
| 57)
Conventional Implicature
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12
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Conversational Implicature
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51
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Brian Robinson
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63
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Linguistic Focus
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16
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12
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Metaphor
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112
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Performatives
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26
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Presupposition
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103
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Relevance Theory
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27
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Semantics-Pragmatics Distinction
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86
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Speech Acts
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127
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Mitchell Green
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108
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| 102)
Adverbs
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21
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Attitude Ascriptions
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330
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Gary Ostertag
Desire Ascriptions
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Fregean Theories of Attitude Ascriptions
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31
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Gary Ostertag
Perceptual Reports
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29
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Benj Hellie
Russellian Theories of Attitude Ascriptions
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32
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Gary Ostertag
Frege's Puzzle
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48
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Alex Radulescu
Hidden-Indexical Theories of Attitude Ascriptions
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19
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Substitutivity in Attitude Ascriptions
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29
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Gary Ostertag
Kripke's Puzzle About Belief
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32
)
Gary Ostertag
Speech Reports
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8
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Attitude Ascriptions, Misc
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40
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Gary Ostertag
Conditionals
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924
| 155)
Lee Walters
Truth-Conditional Accounts of Indicative Conditionals
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48
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Lee Walters
Epistemic Accounts of Indicative Conditionals
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56
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Lee Walters
Pragmatic Accounts of Indicative Conditionals
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10
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Lee Walters
Indicative Conditionals and Conditional Probabilities
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73
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Lee Walters
Indicative Conditionals, Misc
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37
)
Lee Walters
Possible-World Theories of Counterfactuals
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87
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Lee Walters
Logic of Conditionals
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128
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Lee Walters
Causal Theories of Counterfactuals
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14
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Lee Walters
Counterpossible Conditionals
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18
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Lee Walters
Indicative vs Subjunctive Conditionals
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30
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Conditional Assertion
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19
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Subjunctive Conditionals, Misc
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176
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Conditionals, Misc
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73
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Lee Walters
Connectives
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102
| 25)
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Conditionals
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924
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Disjunction
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28
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Joseph S Fulda
Negation
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29
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Connectives, Misc
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11
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Joseph S Fulda
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278
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Eliot Michaelson
Attributive and Referential Uses of Descriptions
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14
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Descriptions as Predicates
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9
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17
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17
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Incompleteness of Descriptions
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Eliot Michaelson
Indefinite Descriptions
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Presuppositional Account of Descriptions
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Russell's Theory of Descriptions
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248
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Character and Content
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67
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The First-Person Pronoun
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Pure and Impure Indexicals
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Possible-World Theories of Counterfactuals
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Lee Walters
Deontic Modals
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11
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Daniel Rothschild
Epistemic Modals
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68
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Joe Salerno
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Frege's Puzzle
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Alex Radulescu
Kripke's Puzzle About Belief
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330
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Degree Theories of Vagueness
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Peter Fritz
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Higher-Order Vagueness
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