Empty names and `gappy' propositions

Philosophical Studies 116 (1):1-36 (2003)
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In recent years a number of authors sympathetic to Referentialistaccounts of proper names have argued that utterances containingempty names express `gappy,' or incomplete, propositions. In this paper I want to take issue with this suggestion.In particular, I argue versions of this approach developedby David Braun, Nathan Salmon, Ken Taylor, and by Fred Adams,Gary Fuller, and Robert Stecker.

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10.1023/b:phil.0000005533.25543.36

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