Referring to institutional entities: Semantic and ontological perspectives

Applied ontology 8 (1):31-57 (2013)
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Focusing on the systematic polysemy of institution-denoting terms, this paper defends the general view that such multiple-meaning phenomena take root in the complex ontological structure of the den...

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Literal Meaning.François Récanati - 2002 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
Fiction and Metaphysics.Amie L. Thomasson - 1998 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
Ordinary Objects.Amie Thomasson (ed.) - 2007 - New York: Oxford University Press.

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