Copredication, Davidson and Logical Form
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This paper offers a novel account of polysemous copredicative sentences. The solution, which it is argued enjoys number advantages over the alternative accounts currently on market, inspired by Donald Davidson’s first attempt to deal with ambiguity. Specifically, involves mapping ambiguities in object language (in this case singular terms) onto metalanguage. If coherent and superior its rivals, tells us something important about logical form: value form does not lie elimination all lexical
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عنوان ژورنال: Logic and Logical Philosophy
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['1425-3305', '2300-9802']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12775/llp.2023.013