Meaning and Ontology

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dc.contributor.authorPelletier, Francis J.
dc.contributor.authorLepore, Ernest
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-01T01:44:16Z
dc.date.available2025-05-01T01:44:16Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.descriptionThis paper is an investigation into the role of linguistics in philosophical theorizing. In particular, we will show how linguistic evidence can be adduced in support of an event approach to action verbs and their adverbial modifiers: if we increase the adicity of verbs, if we allow there to be reference to events, if we treat adverbs like adjectives that modify events, if we allow prepositional phrases to be akin to adjectives, etc., then we can explain all sorts of inferential relations among sentences using these verbs, as well as our capacity to comprehend a potential infinitude of well-formed meaningful non-synonymous sentences that employs these verbs.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7939/R3DJ58X2C
dc.language.isoen
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9783110216882.399
dc.relation.isversionofLepore, E., & Pelletier, F.J. (2012). Meaning and Ontology. In R. Schantz (Ed.), Prospects for Meaning (vol. 3, pp. 399-434). Berlin, Germany: de Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110216882.399
dc.rights© 2012 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston. This version of this article is open access and can be downloaded and shared. The original author(s) and source must be cited.
dc.subjectVan Quine, Willard
dc.subjectMeaning
dc.subjectSemantics
dc.subjectPhilosophy of Language
dc.subjectLinguistics
dc.titleMeaning and Ontology
dc.typehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_3248
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