ABSTRACT

Non-<ienoting singular terms have been a prime stimulus, or irritant, to students of the use and formal representation of language. Only one other subject (modal logic) has provoked so many differences among logicians over which sentences should be counted valid. It may be that in the case of singular terms these differences are not fully resolvable, especially in light of the various purposes that logical analyses serve. But there are, I think, means of narrowing our options in choosing logical axioms. This paper is devoted to exploring one such means.1