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Diánoia
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GARCIA RAMIREZ, Eduardo. Negative Existencials as Metalinguistic Denials. Diánoia [online]. 2012, vol.57, n.69, pp.3-29. ISSN 0185-2450.
There are uses of empty names where the speaker cannot justifiably be said to be committed to there being a referent for her use of the relevant name. These appear within negative existential constructions of the form ‘X doesn't exist' where ‘X' is an empty name. Yet, speakers manage to convey non-trivial and sometimes even truthful information with such uses. According to the metalinguistic tradition initiated by R. Stalnaker (1978) assertions of ‘X doesn't exist' convey the information that " ‘X doesn't refer". In this paper I develop a hypothetical account that purports to advance this tradition. On this view, these speech acts are understood as metalinguistic denials. I defend this hypothesis by comparing it against a recent metalinguistic proposal owed to L. Clapp (2008).
Palabras llave : presuppositions; metalinguistic uses; positive existentials; negative existentials.