Lexicon of Arguments

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I 237
Properties/universals/reference/Schiffer: "modesty" and "red" refer to nothing.
>Reference, >Generality.
N.B.: therefore the grammatical singular terms need no reference.
>Singular terms.
Then no compositional semantics is needed.
>Compositionality.
Understanding of the sentence "Teresa is modest" needs no acquaintance with humility.
Logical form by E.g. "Modesty is a virtue": not more fine-grained than "P".
>Fine-grained/coarse-grained.
That -clause: has no referent.
>That-clauses.
A grammatical singular term does not have to be a logically a singular expression.

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