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Complex Demonstratives, QI Uses, and Direct Reference

Rutgers

Complex demonstratives (in the singular) are noun phrases that result from combining the determiners `this' or `that' with syntactically simple or complex common noun phrases such as `woman' or `woman who is taking her skis off'. Thus, `this woman', and `that woman who is taking her skis off' are complex demonstratives. There are also plural complex demonstratives such as `these skis' and `those snowboarders smoking by the gondola'.

My book Complex Demonstratives: A Quantificational Account argues against what I call the direct reference account of complex demonstratives (henceforth DRCD) and defends a quantificational account of complex demonstratives. In two recent papers, Nathan Salmon has criticized one of the book's arguments against DRCD. In this essay I show that Salmon's criticism fails. I also show that the version of DRCD that Salmon ends up endorsing is false.

Kaplan, David. 1989. "Demonstratives." In Themes from Kaplan, ed. Joseph Almog, John Perry, Howard Wettstein. New York: Oxford University Press.

King, Jeffrey C. 1999. "Are Complex `That' Phrases Devices of Direct Reference?" Noûs 33: 155-82.

____. 2001. Complex Demonstratives: A Quantificational Account. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Salmon, Nathan. 2006a. "Terms in Bondage." Philosophy of Language: Philosophical Issues 16: 263-74.

____. 2006b. "A Theory of Bondage." Philosophical Review 115: 415-48.[Free Full Text]

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