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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Schwartzkopff, Robert

Titel

Number sentences and specificational sentences

Ist Teil von

• Philosophical studies, 2016-08, Vol.173 (8), p.2173-2192

Ort / Verlag

Dordrecht: Springer Nature B.V

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

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SpringerLink Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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, pace Frege, 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.