Priest (Ab) “Multiple Denotation, Ambiguity, and the Strange Case of the Missing Amoeba”, Abstract

 

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“Multiple Denotation, Ambiguity, and the Strange Case of the Missing Amoeba”

 

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Abstract

 

The paper falls into two parts. Taking off from some insights in the semantics of paraconsistent logic, the first part sets up the formal semantic machinery for a language in which predicates and the terms to which they are applied may have multiple denotations. The second part discusses some aspects of the philosophical import of the semantics, including their relationship with the notion of ambiguity, conceptual fission, and their application to solve a puzzle of Prior concerning the identity of objects that split into two.

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Priest, Graham. 1995. “Multiple Denotation, Ambiguity, and the Strange Case of the Missing Amoeba.” Logique et Analyse 38: 361-373.

Available at his website:

http://grahampriest.net/publications/papers/#1995

And at JSTOR:

http://www.jstor.org/stable/44084549

 

 

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