Lexicon of Arguments

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I 103
Compound Expressions/Complex Terms/Relative Clause/Geach: Problem: no merely simple predicate corresponds to the relative clause; - it is ambiguous to whom "someone", "he" or "anyone" refers.
>Relative clause, >Clauses.
Range: can be deceptive: E.g. A woman admired by all natives is beautiful/his wife.
>Reference, >Identification/Geach, >Pronoun, >Anaphora, >Scope,
Russell: a "denoting expression" must be radically paraphrased. - Geach ditto.
>Denotation/Russell, >Denotation/Geach.
I 106
Compound expressions/complex terms/relative clause/Geach: the relationship pronoun-antecedent is analogous to the relationship variable-operator - it is ambiguous.
>Ambiguity, >Variables, >Operators.
Solution: resolution by additional pronouns: "if", "and", etc. - ((s) It is not about unity, but about dissolving the unity.)
Symbolic Language/Geach: (e.g. set theory): a symbolic language can dissolve unity by definition: E.g. "y belongs to the class of Ps": differs depending on whether with equal sign or epsilon: >"for a class x, y belongs to x, and if something belongs to x, it is P".
E.g. wrong: "only a woman who has lost all sense of shame gets drunk".
>Formal language, >Extensionality.
Correct: a woman only gets ... when she..." otherwise it follows: "Men never get drunk."

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