Lexicon of Arguments

 

I 123
Subordinate clause/subset/singular term/Frege/Schiffer: -that the earth moves- = singular term: because of the lack of substitutability in intensional contexts.
DavidsonVs/Schiffer: -the earth moves- is no part of a singular term.
Cf. >Paratactic analysis.
Neither clause nor proposition.
>Proposition.
The only reference of -earth- is earth. - I.e. there is substitutability.
>Reference, >Substitution, >Asymmetry predicate/singular terms.

I 285
Paratactic analysis/Davidson: three-digit relation. speaker, current statement (Italian), content clause of the reporting person. - But the surface grammar is two-digit and has a truth value.

I 125
"That" in "that the earth moves"- is a singular term, that refers to a statement.
>That clause.
Problem: quantification into that-clauses. Must be elaborated for: E.g. Galileo says of a person that she makes a great lasagne.
>Quantification, >Opaque contexts.
Wrong solution: That-clause as orthographic part of "say-that".
Then there is no term that carries the reference to the statement.