Richard Sharvy
Biographic Data
| ID | 1012228 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Sharvy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Sharvy |
| SIGNATURE | SHARVY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swarthmore College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
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A More General Theory of Definite Descriptions
1jussell's analysis of definite descriptions works well enough for definite singular descriptions like 'the author of Waverley', which are formed from a singular count predicate like 'is an author of Waverley'. The Russellian analysis fails when the contained predicate is mass or plural, as in the definite descriptions 'the gold in Zurich' and 'the people in Auckland'. I offer a unified theory that accounts for all three types of definite descrip…
Maybe English Has no Count Nouns
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Euthyphro 9d-11b
At 7a Euthyphro proposes his first definition of piety and impiety: what the gods like is pious, and what they dislike is impious. Socrates notes that the gods supposedly disagree about many things, and that there seem to be some things that are both loved and hated by the gods. So with that definition, some of the same things will be both pious and impious (8a). This point is logical as well as mythological, for by reading 'the gods' as 'some go…
Three Types of Referential Opacity
Three distinct things have been called “referential opacity,” causing some confusion. A noun position in a sentence may be opaque in three different ways: (1) substitutivity of identity may fail there, (2) quantifiers prefixed to the sentence may not be able to bind variables in that position, or (3) substitutivity of identity may fail when the singular nouns in question are read as having small scope. Some connections among these three types of …
A More General Theory of Definite Descriptions
1jussell's analysis of definite descriptions works well enough for definite singular descriptions like 'the author of Waverley', which are formed from a singular count predicate like 'is an author of Waverley'. The Russellian analysis fails when the contained predicate is mass or plural, as in the definite descriptions 'the gold in Zurich' and 'the people in Auckland'. I offer a unified theory that accounts for all three types of definite descrip…
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Euthyphro 9d-11b
At 7a Euthyphro proposes his first definition of piety and impiety: what the gods like is pious, and what they dislike is impious. Socrates notes that the gods supposedly disagree about many things, and that there seem to be some things that are both loved and hated by the gods. So with that definition, some of the same things will be both pious and impious (8a). This point is logical as well as mythological, for by reading 'the gods' as 'some go…
Three Types of Referential Opacity
Three distinct things have been called “referential opacity,” causing some confusion. A noun position in a sentence may be opaque in three different ways: (1) substitutivity of identity may fail there, (2) quantifiers prefixed to the sentence may not be able to bind variables in that position, or (3) substitutivity of identity may fail when the singular nouns in question are read as having small scope. Some connections among these three types of …
Maybe English Has no Count Nouns
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A More General Theory of Definite Descriptions
1jussell's analysis of definite descriptions works well enough for definite singular descriptions like 'the author of Waverley', which are formed from a singular count predicate like 'is an author of Waverley'. The Russellian analysis fails when the contained predicate is mass or plural, as in the definite descriptions 'the gold in Zurich' and 'the people in Auckland'. I offer a unified theory that accounts for all three types of definite descrip…
Mixtures
Philosophy (5 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Noun (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Advanced Algebra and Logic (1 works) · Advanced Topology and Set Theory (1 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Analytic philosophy (1 works)