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In metaphysics and the philosophy of language, an empty name is a proper name that has no referent. The problem of empty names is the idea that empty names have a meaning when it seems they should not have. The name "Pegasus" is empty; [1] there is nothing to which it refers. Yet, though there is no Pegasus, we know what the sentence "Pegasus ...
Some writers have argued that namelessness, though technically correct, does not capture what is more centrally at stake in contexts of anonymity. The important idea here is that a person be non-identifiable, unreachable, or untrackable. [1] Anonymity is seen as a technique, or a way of realizing, a certain other values, such as privacy, or ...
In 1988, Non Ishida published three picture grid puzzles in Japan under the name of "Window Art Puzzles". In 1990, James Dalgety in the UK invented the name Nonograms after Non Ishida, [citation needed] and The Sunday Telegraph started publishing them on a weekly basis. [1] By 1993, the first book of nonograms was published by Non Ishida in Japan.
The social media platform updated its privacy policy to say people “cannot share … the identity of an anonymous user, such as their name or media depicting them,” without that person’s ...
In the philosophy of language, the descriptivist theory of proper names (also descriptivist theory of reference) [1] is the view that the meaning or semantic content of a proper name is identical to the descriptions associated with it by speakers, while their referents are determined to be the objects that satisfy these descriptions.
I-mean-Nico. I'm-so-sorry," I asked, fumbling my question and apologizing, mortified. ... My kid is supported no matter her name. It's a strange thing when your child changes their name.
Direct reference theory is similar to Mill's theory in that it proposes that the only meaning of a proper name is its referent. Modern proposals such as those by David Kaplan, which distinguish between Fregean and non-Fregean terms, the former which have both sense and reference and the latter which include proper names and have only reference ...
Judges allowed the appeal, saying the child has "full capacity and strongly expressed wishes".