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the more philosophical ideas can be explained without it (as Kaplan himself does in Demonstratives and Dthat). But the point is that the jargon here was created for very specific purposes which aren't easily served by ordinary language. This is part of why most people would place Kaplan into the ideal language tradition.
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I can understand why it would seem that way, but the fact is that Kaplan is a very technical philosopher who (along with most other philosophers of language) makes heavy use of a lot of technical terminology, in addition to lots of formal logic. I didn't include much of the formal logic, as many of
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It has a few problems with citations, could be expanded, is very readable, contains no puffery or unsupported statements. In short, it's unusual and very good. Good inspiration for the others I'm working on. Also, it doesn't take a Ph.D. in philosophy of mind or logic to read
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This is another article where, instead of an actual citation, words that look like they're an actual citation are used. Frege did write something "On Sense and Reference," but his book is not identical to
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