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Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.52685/cjp.25.74.8

Words Without Intentions

J. T. M. Miller orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-2654-5012 ; University of Durham, Durham, UK


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Abstract

A commonly held position in the literature on the metaphysics of words holds that intentions are either jointly or independently necessary or sufficient for the tokening of a word. In this paper, using a modified version of an example case created by Pavese and Radulescu (2023), I propose a counterexample in which there is no intention to token a specific word, but a word is still successfully uttered.

Keywords

Words; intentions; metaphysics of words.

Hrčak ID:

340283

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/340283

Publication date:

1.12.2025.

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