Keelefilosoofia raamat
in part, by referring to what they supposedly refer to. We shall say more of
Montague's system in chapter 10.)
Objection 2
According to the Referential Theory, a sentence is a list of names. But a mere
list of names does not say anything.
(7) Fred Martha Irving Phyllis
cannot be used to assert anything, even if Martha or Irving is an abstract
entity rather than a physical object. One might suppose that if the name of
an individual is concatenated with the name of a quality, as in
(8) Ralph fatness
the resulting string would have normal subjectpredicate meaning, say that
Ralph is fat. (Early in his career, Bertrand Russell suggested that, by writing
down a list of names for the right sorts of things in the right order, one would
form the collective name of a state of affairs.) But in fact (8) is ungrammatical.
For it to take on normal subjectpredicate meaning, a verb would have to be
inserted:
annaabi.ee 
