An Externalist and Contextualist Account of Copredication

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Daniel Molto
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2384-1668

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Sostengo que la polisemia es un fenómeno contextual, pero que la naturaleza de la dependencia contextual de la polisemia ha sido malinterpretada, algo que se pone de manifiesto en el caso especialmente difícil de la copredicación. En este artículo, ofrezco una semántica veri-condicional que puede dar cuenta de las oraciones copredicativas, en las cuales los términos polisémicos se utilizan en más de un sentido y, por tanto, poseen más de una extensión simultáneamente. Además, argumento que mi propuesta es compatible con el externismo, lo cual es significativo porque la existencia de la polisemia suele considerarse un problema para dicha posición. El contexto debe desempeñar un papel importante en esta semántica que, como mostraré, difiere sustancialmente de las propuestas actualmente disponibles.

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Molto, D. (2025). An Externalist and Contextualist Account of Copredication. Crítica. Revista Hispanoamericana De Filosofía, 57(171), 163–180. https://doi.org/10.22201/iifs.18704905e.2025.1755

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