Why semantic innocence?

Australasian Journal of Philosophy 70 (4):445 – 454 (1992)
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This paper rejects the imposition of "semantic innocence" as a constraint on semantic theories. In particular, it argues that recent attempts to justify the imposition of "semantic innocence" as a constraint on semantic theories fail.

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