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• Title:
  Talking About Nothing
• Creator:
  Vecsey, Zoltán
• Description:
  Some singular terms are referentially empty by necessity. Oliver and Smiley have recently introduced the term ‘zilch’ for illustrating this kind of emptiness. The emptiness of ‘zilch’ is supposed to arise from the fact that its extension has been defined by a logically unsatisfiable condition. Casati and Fujikawa disagree with this explanation and claim that ‘zilch’ refers to some null thing. In this paper, I argue that neither of these positions is correct, since, for different reasons, they both misinterpret the phenomenon of referential emptiness. As an alternative, I propose a representationalist account of emptiness, which can explain the properties of ‘zilch’ and similar terms more effectively.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2019 Logic and Logical Philosophy
• Date:
  2019.07.11
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Logic and Logical Philosophy; Vol. 29 No. 2 (2020): June; 311-321;
  Logic and Logical Philosophy; Tom 29 Nr 2 (2020): June; 311-321;
  2300-9802;
  1425-3305
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu
• Relation: https://apcz.umk.pl/LLP/article/view/LLP.2019.027/17989
• Subject:
  empty singular terms;
  reference;
  zilch;
  non-relational representation
• Identifier: https://apcz.umk.pl/LLP/article/view/LLP.2019.027
• Data provider:
  Akademicka Platforma Czasopism
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• Type:
  text