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URL:https://www.ub.edu/grc_logos/activities/pluralist-semantics/
SUMMARY:Pluralist Semantics
DESCRIPTION:Zoltan Gendler Szab&oacute\; (Yale)Frege famously gets himself 
 into a contradiction regarding the question whether the referent of &lsquo
 \;is a horse&rsquo\; is a function. One of the aims of this paper is to se
 e whether any of the assumptions that lead to this contradiction can be dr
 opped without risking the integrity the Fregean program in natural languag
 e semantics. I will argue that the answer is negative: to avoid the proble
 m we must embark on a radical revision. I think we should abandon the sing
 ularist conception of semantics\, which demands that we interpret linguist
 ic expressions via assignment of a unique semantic value. There is an alte
 rnative\, going back to medieval logicians of nominalist leaning\, accordi
 ng to which predicates signify multiple particulars rather than a single u
 niversal and syncategoremata signify nothing at all. I will make the case 
 that natural language semantics could and perhaps should return to this tr
 adition. 
CATEGORIES:Extra talks
LOCATION:Room 4029 (Seminari del Departament de Història de la Filosofia\,
  Estètica i Filosofia de la Cultura)
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