David Sosa argues that Millians cannot handle the ambiguity of name in belief report cases similar to Paderewski’s.He raises a puzzle against Millians commitment to the Hermeneutic principle-a name having a single re...David Sosa argues that Millians cannot handle the ambiguity of name in belief report cases similar to Paderewski’s.He raises a puzzle against Millians commitment to the Hermeneutic principle-a name having a single referent is sufficient for being logically represented by one constant.In this paper,I devise a dilemma to show that Sosa’s argument fails.Either the ambiguity issue collapses into the problem of the substitution principle against Sosa’s goal,or Millians can use a syntactic tool to disambiguate and resolve the puzzle.The ambiguity issue does not favour Fregeanism over Millianism.展开更多
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文摘David Sosa argues that Millians cannot handle the ambiguity of name in belief report cases similar to Paderewski’s.He raises a puzzle against Millians commitment to the Hermeneutic principle-a name having a single referent is sufficient for being logically represented by one constant.In this paper,I devise a dilemma to show that Sosa’s argument fails.Either the ambiguity issue collapses into the problem of the substitution principle against Sosa’s goal,or Millians can use a syntactic tool to disambiguate and resolve the puzzle.The ambiguity issue does not favour Fregeanism over Millianism.
