RE: More about questions and the like (was:What I have for dinner...")

["And Rosta" <a.rosta@lycos.co.uk>]

> From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
> 
> Pycyn@aol.com wrote:
> 
> > One names-as-predicates.  It is odd semantically: names usually 
> > (certainly in English) don't have a sense, just a referent
> 
> Everybody says this since Frege, 

true

> including And, 

false! I am in a tiny but correct minority. Note that pc was 
responding to my statement that names shd be treated as predicates,
which is not (as far as I can see) compatible with the standard,
wrong "referent-but-no-sense" view. More on this in my reply to
pc.

> but I still think that the sense of "Fido" is "dog".

I'm not sure what exactly you mean, if this is intended to illustrate
an approach generalizing to all names.

--And.