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| Title: | The Nature Of Predication |
| Authors: | Liebesman, DavidF |
| Keywords: | sematic relation |
| Issue Date: | 14-Oct-2009 |
| Abstract: | I articulate and defend a necessary and sufficient condition for an occurrence of a term to function semantically as a predicate. The condition is that the term occurrence stands in the relation of ascription to its denotation, ascription being a fundamental semantic relation that differs from reference. This view on predication has dramatically different semantic consequences from its alternatives. After outlining the alternatives, I draw out these consequences and show how they favor the ascription view. I then develop the ascription view and elicit a number of its virtues. |
| No Access Until: | 2014-10-14 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1813/14067 |
| Appears in Collections: | Theses and Dissertations (CLOSED)
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