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V - The linguistic approach to ontology

V - The linguistic approach to ontology
V - The linguistic approach to ontology
What are the prospects for a linguistic approach to ontology? Given that it seems that there are true subject-predicate sentences containing empty names, traditional linguistic approaches to ontology appear to be flawed. I argue that in order to determine what there is, we need to determine which sentences ascribe properties (and relations) to objects, and that there does not appear to be any formal criterion for this. This view is then committed to giving an account of what predicates do in sentences when they do not ascribe properties. I sketch an approach to the varieties of predication.
0066-7374
127-152
Walters, Lee
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Walters, Lee
6588848d-16fa-41f1-a94b-c339c3428c13

Walters, Lee (2021) V - The linguistic approach to ontology. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 121 (2), 127-152. (doi:10.1093/arisoc/aoab004).

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What are the prospects for a linguistic approach to ontology? Given that it seems that there are true subject-predicate sentences containing empty names, traditional linguistic approaches to ontology appear to be flawed. I argue that in order to determine what there is, we need to determine which sentences ascribe properties (and relations) to objects, and that there does not appear to be any formal criterion for this. This view is then committed to giving an account of what predicates do in sentences when they do not ascribe properties. I sketch an approach to the varieties of predication.

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Published date: 9 August 2021
Additional Information: Publisher Copyright: © 2021 The Aristotelian Society. Copyright: Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
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Local EPrints ID: 453661
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/453661
DOI: doi:10.1093/arisoc/aoab004
ISSN: 0066-7374
PURE UUID: 0a33033e-f4dd-42a2-b00b-d4067086b9b7
ORCID for Lee Walters: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-3899-3522

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Date deposited: 20 Jan 2022 17:45
Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 06:59

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