Synthese 197:5411–5433 (2020)
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Views that treat the contents of sentences as structured, Russellian propositions face a problem with empty names. It seems that those sorts of things cannot be the contents of sentences containing such names. I motivate and defend a solution to the problem according to which a sentence may have a singular proposition as its content at one time, and a nonsingular one at another. When the name is empty the content is a nonsingular Russellian structured proposition; when the name is not empty the content is a singular Russellian structured proposition.
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| Keywords | content empty names propositions reference Russellianism |
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| DOI | 10.1007/s11229-018-01971-3 |
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