Ontology, Modality, and the Fallacy of Reference

Bibliographic Data

ID10697845
AuthorsScott A Shalkowski (0000-0002-5842-1241), Michael Jubien
Year1995
Volume104
Issue4
Pages630
Publication date1995-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Philosophical Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0031-8108 • E-ISSN: 1558-1470
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2185838
OpenAlexW1986510697
LanguageEN
Citations received14

This is a book about the concept of a physical thing and about how the names of things relate to the things they name. It questions the prevalent view that names 'refer to' or 'denote' the things they name. Instead it presents a new theory of proper names, according to which names express certain special properties that the things they name exhibit. This theory leads to some important conclusions about whether things have any of their properties as a matter of necessity. This will be an important book for philosophers in metaphysics and the philosophy of language, though it will also interest linguists concerned with the semantics of natural language

Contemporary philosophy · Epistemology · Fallacy · General interest · Modality (human–computer interaction) · Ontology · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · linguistics and terminology studies · Philosophy

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