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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
METAPHYSICS AND THE PARONYMY OF NAMES
Contributor:
Lycan, William G.
Published:
University of Illinois Press, 2018
Published in:
American Philosophical Quarterly, 55 (2018) 4, Seite 405-419
Language:
English
DOI:
10.2307/45128634
ISSN:
0003-0481;
2152-1123
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
Abstract Paronymy—ambiguity that is not sheer ambiguity—is underdiscussed by philosophers of language. And hardly anyone has noticed that proper names are paronymous; different occurrences of a single name have slightly and subtly different referents. This paper invokes that fact to illuminate some issues in metaphysics: a puzzle about fictional characters; Jennifer Saul’s phenomenon of referential opacity in the absence of opacity-inducing operators; the relation between persons and bodies; death; personal identity through time; and Peter Ludlow’s argument for the zany claim that the distinction between fiction and actuality is merely contextual.