Katz on Names Without Bearers

Philosophical Review 104 (4):553-576 (1995)
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Millian theories of proper names say that the meaning of a proper name is just its referent. These theories have an appealing kind of simplicity to them, but they also have an apparently serious problem with names that fail to refer. Consider, for example, sentence.

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10.2307/2185817

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