According to predicativism about names, names which occur in argument positions have the same type of semantic contents as predicates. In this paper, I shall argue that these bare singular names do not have the same type of semantic contents as predicates. I will present three objections to predicativism—the modal, the epistemic, and the translation objections—and show that they succeed even against the more sophisticated versions of predicativism defended by Fara and Bach.
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Lee, J. (2020). Against predicativism about names. Philosophical Studies, 177(1), 243–261. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-018-1187-3
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