Document Type : Translation & Critic

Authors

• Seyed Mohammad Ali Hojjati ¹
• Mohammad Saleh Zarepour ²

¹ associate professor of philosophy department, Tarbait Modares University

² PhD student in philosophy, Tarbait Modares University

Abstract

 Marga Reimer believes that ordinary speakers presuppose Meinongianism and their intuition about the meaningfulness of the sentences contained empty names is based on this fact. We will argue in this paper that her view is not strongly supported. More precisely, there is an alternative view that is incompatible with Reimer's view and as powerful as it in explaining speakers' intuitions. We will argue that there is no plausible reason for preferring Reimer’s view to this proposed alternative.

Keywords

• proper name
• empty name
• Millianism
• Meinongianism
• principle of compositionality