Lexicon of Arguments

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I 88
"It"/Geach: "it" is a non-referring term:
For example,
The only one who ever stole a book from Snead made a lot of money selling it.

Problem: this cannot be replaced salva veritate by "Robinson", because "it" then becomes senseless. - in the original also not replaceable by "a book", because then it is also senseless.
>Senseless.
I 110f
Fake predicate/fake token/Geach: the philosopher whose disciple (was) Plato was bald - fake: "Plato was bald" - Example:
"A philosopher smoked and drank whisky": fake token: "a philosopher smoked"..."and he (or the philosopher (!)) drank...
>Predicates, cf. >Pronouns, >Reference.
Solution: "casus": two smoking philosophers, one of whom does not drink. The sentence does not show which one is true - but no psychologizing: ("what the speaker thought about") what he said is true, even if not all thoughts were true. Wrong question: to what the subject refers: "he" or "this philosopher" is not a subject at all. "And" (conjunction) combines here two predicates, not two sentences!
Def fake predicate/Geach: we have a fake predicate if the question is irrelevant to what it is applied.
Example "Everyone loves themselves" can be true, even if "every man loves ---" does not appeal to anyone. - >Anaphora, >Index words, >Indexicality.

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