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We saw in Chapter 5 that model theory, in accounting for the traditional range of necessary truths (i.e. for those addressed by classical logic), yields a framework of individuals and properties, which enables us to accommodate the pre-theoretical concepts of reference and existence. The existence of the individuals and properties was not the result of a metaphysical deliberation, but resulted from our way of reconstruction of the inferential structure of language.
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Peregrin, J. (1995). Denotation. In: Doing Worlds with Words. Synthese Library, vol 253. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8468-5_7
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