Título del libro: Quantifiers, Quantifiers, And Quantifiers: Themes In Logic, Metaphysics, And Language
Título del capítulo: Quantifiers and referential use
MARIO GOMEZ TORRENTE;
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Idioma:
Inglés
Año de publicación:
2015
Palabras clave:
DISTINCTION
Resumen:
Referential uses of quantified determiner phrases other than descriptions have not been extensively considered. In this paper they are considered in some detail, and related to referential uses of descriptions. The first aim is to develop the observation that, contrary to the currently received view that it is only for descriptions that referential uses are frequent and standard, arising in run-of-themill contextual scenarios, this is in fact the case for all usual kinds of quantifier phrases. A second aim is to offer a preliminary discussion of how these data about quantifier phrases other than descriptions constrain the feasible extensions of theories of descriptions to cover the referential uses of quantifier phrases in general. I argue that the data don?t support a semantic explanation of referential uses of descriptions, and in fact suggest problems for several semantic theories of referential uses of quantifier phrases in general. I also argue that pragmatic theories of referential uses of quantifier phrases in general might plausibly explain standard referential uses as involving a genus of particularized conversational implicatures in which no conversational maxims are ?flouted? or even violated, rather than generalized implicatures or particularized implicatures of Grice?s ?exploitative? type. I nevertheless emphasize that I don?t take the dispute between semantic and pragmatic theories of referential use to have been satisfactorily resolved. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.
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ISBN:
9783319183626
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Springer International Publishing Nombre de la publicación:
Quantifiers and referential use
Página inicial:
97
Página final:
124
