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  1. Number words and reference to numbers.Katharina Felka - 2014 - Philosophical Studies 168 (1):261-282.
    A realist view of numbers often rests on the following thesis: statements like ‘The number of moons of Jupiter is four’ are identity statements in which the copula is flanked by singular terms whose semantic function consists in referring to a number (henceforth: Identity). On the basis of Identity the realists argue that the assertive use of such statements commits us to numbers. Recently, some anti-realists have disputed this argument. According to them, Identity is false, and, thus, we may deny (...)
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  2. On the presuppositions of number sentences.Katharina Felka - 2015 - Synthese 192 (5):1393-1412.
    This paper is concerned with an intuitive contrast that arises when we consider sentences containing empty definite descriptions. A sentence like ‘The king of France is bald’ appears neither true nor false, while a sentence like ‘My friend was visited by the king of France’ appears false. Recently, Stephen Yablo has suggested an account of this intuitive contrast. Yablo’s account is particularly interesting, since it has important consequences for the ontological commitments of number sentences like ‘The number of planets is (...)
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  3. Comments on Stephen Yablo’s Aboutness.Katharina Felka - 2018 - Erkenntnis 83 (6):1181-1194.
    This paper concerns Yablo’s theory of asserted content as it is developed in his new book Aboutness. Yablo’s central idea is that in order to specify the asserted content of a sentence, we have to subtract those parts of its full semantic content that concern irrelevant subject matters. The paper argues that it is doubtful whether Yablo’s account successfully deals with its most basic envisaged application: to account for a difference of apparent truth value in cases of ordinary presupposition failure. (...)
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    If-Thenism—A Nominalistic Account of Talk About Abstracta?Katharina Felka - 2017 - Australasian Philosophical Review 1 (2):179-183.
    ABSTRACTAccording to Yablo, in uttering sentences that imply the existence of abstract objects, we do not assert their literal content. Instead, we only make a weaker conditional claim that does not have the controversial implication. In this commentary I argue that the conditional claims Yablo suggests we are making are true only if abstract objects exist and, thus, also carry the controversial implication.
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    Ist Vieles mehr? Eine Diskussion von Emanuel Viebahns Semantic Pluralism.Katharina Felka - 2019 - Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 73 (4):575-580.
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    Précis zu Talking About Numbers. Easy Arguments for Mathematical Realism.Katharina Felka - 2016 - Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 70 (3):400-405.
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    Repliken.Katharina Felka - 2016 - Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 70 (3):419-423.
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