Number sentences and specificational sentences
Number sentences and specificational sentences
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算式和特定句子
DOI：
10.1007/s11098-015-0603-1
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发表时间：
2016
影响因子：
1.3
通讯作者：
Schwartzkopff
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作者：
Schwartzkopff
弗雷格建议，像‘行星的数量是8’这样的句子可以被分析为同一性陈述，其中的数字词指的是数字。最近，弗里德里克·莫尔特曼主张，这类句子应该被分析为所谓的具体句子，其中数字词具有与《有八个行星》中的数字词‘八’相同的非指称语义功能。这篇论文的目的有两个。首先，我认为莫尔特曼没有证明这种句子应该被分析为具体的句子。其次，我认为即使用这种方式来分析它们，莫尔特曼提出的具体分析也是不能令人满意的。
Frege proposed that sentences like ‘The number of planets is eight’ be analysed as identity statements in which the number words refer to numbers. Recently, Friederike Moltmann argued that,paceFrege, such sentences be analysed as so-called specificational sentences in which the number words have the same non-referring semantic function as the number word ‘eight’ in ‘There are eight planets’. The aim of this paper is two-fold. First, I argue that Moltmann fails to show that such sentences should be analysed as specificational sentences. Second, I show that even if they are to be analysed in this way, Moltmann’s proposed specificational analysis is unsatisfactory.