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In Defence of a Radical Millianism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 January 2009
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In order to by-pass immaterial historical bickering I shall stipulatively mean by ‘Radical Millianism’ just this much more than what Katz in his recent article in The Philosophical Review, ‘Names without Bearers’ (for short, NWB), means by the unqualified term, ‘Millianism’; namely, whereas Katz means by ‘Millianism’ that theory of proper names (proper nouns) which holds that proper names (nouns) ‘have no linguistic meaning,’
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1 Katz, Jerrold, ‘Names Without Bearers,’ The Philosophical Review,103, (01 1994), 1–39.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
2 Ibid.. 1 ‘Millians claim that names have no sense (linguistic meaning).’
3 Ibid.. 2.
4 Ibid.. 1.
5 Ibid.. 2–3.
6 Ibid.. 13.
7 Ibid.. 1.
8 Ibid.. 12.
9 Ibid.. 1.
10 Ibid.. 13ff.
11 Ibid.. 14.
12 Ibid.. 15.
13 By ‘RMT’ I mean ‘the theory of radical Millianism.’ Our ‘RM(A)’ is in imitation of Katz's PMT's (A). In short, I am modelling our radical Millianism, as a theory, structurely upon Katz's theory, PMT, believing that in doing so instructive light can be shed from the one theory to the other, illuminating what changes are needed to have the one do the work of the other and in particular RMT the work of PMT. I thank, of course, Katz for providing the basic format.