Demonstratives as individual concepts

Linguistics and Philosophy 31 (4):409-466 (2008)
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Using a version of situation semantics, this article argues that bare and complex demonstratives are interpreted as individual concepts.

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Demonstratives: An Essay on the Semantics, Logic, Metaphysics and Epistemology of Demonstratives and other Indexicals.David Kaplan - 1989 - In Joseph Almog, John Perry & Howard Wettstein (eds.), Themes From Kaplan. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 481-563.
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Themes From Kaplan.Joseph Almog, John Perry & Howard Wettstein (eds.) - 1989 - New York: Oxford University Press.

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