?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Recovering+What+Is+Said+with+Empty+Names&rft.creator=Piccinini%2C+Dr.++Gualtiero+&rft.creator=Scott%2C+Dr.++Sam&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Language&rft.description=Millians+hold+that+the+meaning+of+a+proper+name+is+just+its+referent.++Empty+names+have+no+referent.++Accordingly%2C+assuming+semantic+compositionality%2C+utterances+containing+empty+names+have+no+literal%2C+truth-evaluable+meaning.++Nothing+truth-evaluable+is+said%2C+in+Grice%E2%80%99s+sense%2C+by+such+utterances.++But+the+intuitions+of+ordinary+speakers+are+that+utterances+containing+empty+names+are+meaningful.++In+recent+years%2C+some+Millians+have+attempted+to+explain+such+ordinary+intuitions+in+terms+of+what+is+pragmatically+imparted+by+sentences+containing+empty+names.++We+argue+that+this+strategy+fails.++We+show+that+when+nothing+truth-evaluable+is+said+by+an+utterance%2C+intuitions+to+this+effect+can+be+recovered+by+speakers.++But+no+such+intuitions+appear+to+be+recoverable+for+sentences+containing+empty+names.++Furthermore%2C+we+argue+that+alternative+Millian+strategies+for+dealing+with+empty+names+are+even+worse+off.++Unlike+Millianism%2C+a+good+semantic+theory+should+assign+meaning+to+both+full+and+empty+names.&rft.date=2009-11-12&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=other&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F6827%2F1%2FRecovering_What_Is_Said_With_Empty_Names_13_preprint.docx&rft.identifier=++Piccinini%2C+Dr.+Gualtiero++and+Scott%2C+Dr.+Sam++(2009)+Recovering+What+Is+Said+with+Empty+Names.++%5BPreprint%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F6827%2F