... the terms of the Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) Abstract It is often assumed that singular thought requires that an agent be epistemically acquainted with the object...

... to their plans, projects and reasoning. ¹⁴ The presence of significance underpins the status of the Set 3 cases as singular, and the absence of it explains the intuition that Set 2 cases are not genuine instances of singular thought. The cases in Set 1 pass what Jeshion calls...

...If singular thoughts depend upon contextual relations to the objects of thought, how can they be communicated across contexts? The mental file framework suggests an account of the communication of singular thoughts which is reminiscent of Frege's remarks regarding the two senses of ‘I’, in thought...

...The communication of singular thoughts is said to proceed through a general mechanism: the linguistic evocation of mental files via elements of their content. The issue arises whether that mechanism is semantic or pragmatic. In dealing with this issue, the two standard approaches to the referential...

..., David ( 2005 ) Empty Names, Mythical Names, Fictional Names.   Noûs , 39, 596-631. 10.1111/j.0029-4624.2005.00541.x Crane, Tim ( 2011 ) I—The Singularity of Singular Thought.   Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume , 85, 21–43...

... Wright C Brewer B Sawyer S Warfield T A Burge T semantic externalism singular proposition Transcendental Deduction natural kind phlogiston concept Descartes R Dream Argument basic concept theory Weitzman L Brown J McKinsey content singular thought privileged access closure of a priori...

...This chapter explains the possibility of descriptively mediated singular thought. The discussion is set against the background of Russell’s challenge to this possibility from the claim that singular thought requires acquaintance, and is never secured by grasp of a description. To turn...

...What are the conditions on singular thought and what are the mechanisms of singular thought generation? The reigning view is that singular thinking is limited to objects of acquaintance. The alternative position, Semantic Instrumentalism, is that singular thoughts can be manufactured...

... that singular thought about an object involves nondescriptive or de re ways of thinking of that object, that is, modes of presentation resting on contextual relations of ‘acquaintance’ to the object. Such modes of presentation are analysed as mental files in which the subject...

... considers the conflict between descriptive and non-descriptive theories on singular thought and singular reference. Wittgenstein L linguistic reference speaker reference grammar linguistic meaning Montague R pragmatics semantics truth context type token distinction de re thought belief causal...

... insights that underlie the causal theory of names properly belong to the theory of singular thought. de dicto descriptive thought de re thought belief de re relations relational determination satisfactional determination Burge T causal theory of reference context de re modes of presentation McGinn...

... the word and what it refers to; but in the second case, no such relation is involved. The aboutness intuitions are explored as a possible motivation for Meinongianism. In the light of the foregoing, the notion of empty singular thought is introduced and justified. Burge T de re idioms de re de dicto...

...Jeff Speaks, Content and the Explanatory Role of Experience In: Singular Thought and Mental Files. Edited by: Rachel Goodman, James Genone, & Nick Kroll, Oxford University Press (2020). © the several contributors. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198746881.003.0004...

...Michael Murez, Joulia Smortchkova, and Brent Strickland, The Mental Files Theory of Singular Thought In: Singular Thought and Mental Files. Edited by: Rachel Goodman, James Genone, & Nick Kroll, Oxford University Press (2020). © the several contributors. DOI...

... Principles of Acquaintance Russell B Jeshion R sense data datum intuition Anschauung linguistic communication Maddy P Parsons C Hawthorne J Manley D Mitochondrial Eve singular thought semantic instrumentalism satisfactional and non satisfactional aboutness Kaplan David acquaintance singular...

...Coinciding with recognition of the need for more clarity about the notion of singular (or de re) thought, there has been a surge of interest in the notion of a mental file as a way to understand what is distinctive about singular thought. But what isn’t always clear is what mental files are meant...

...No account of intentionality can be complete unless it explains how thought about specific things (‘specific thought’) is possible: how we can think about one specific thing rather than another. Specific thoughts can be about a particular thing (singular thought) or particular groups of things...

...This chapter offers an account of both the inner syntactic form of our thoughts about objects and the way in which those thoughts manage to make semantic content with and reference to outer objects. The central aim is to argue that without an account of the inner form of singular thoughts we...

...This chapter discusses the concept of singular thought, which involves the use of demonstratives and the recognition of particulars. These singular thoughts also provide difficulties for methodological solipsism, but singular-thought theorists are often caught attempting to explain the relation...

...Peter King focuses on the problem of singular thought. There are three problems associated with singular thought: (1) whether acts of thinking are able to single out individual things, akin to the modern problem of “singular thought”; (2) whether acts of thinking are able to identify the things...