Intentional identity From Hob and Nob to Arsky and Barsky

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Authors
Publication date 2021
Host editors
  • D. Gutzmann
  • L. Matthewson
  • C. Meier
  • H. Rullmann
  • T.E. Zimmerman
Book title The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Semantics
ISBN
  • 9781118788318
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9781118788516
Series The Wiley Blackwell companions to linguistics
Volume | Issue number 3
Number of pages 26
Publisher Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell
Organisations
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract Geach's Hob–Nob sentences are a threat to the prominent view in semantics that unbound pronouns should be treated either as abbreviations for the antecedent clause or as variables bound by a (dynamic) existential quantifier. In this chapter this threat will be discussed, together with some proposed solutions.
Document type Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118788516.sem128
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