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The joke about size of yacht by B. Russell and some remarks on semantics of comparative predicates

Two ways of interpreting comparative predicates, the numeral and the object interpretation, are analyzed. The contexts are considered in which problems with such interpretations aroused. The joke about yacht in Russell's article "On Denoting" is analyzed as example. The author proposes mentalist explication the joke.

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компаративный предикат, числовая интерпретация, объектная интерпретация, Рассел, Крипке, менталистская экспликация, comparative predicate, numeral interpretation, object interpretation, Russell, Kripke, mentalist explication

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Surovtsev V.A.Tomsk State Universitysurovtsev1964@mail.ru
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References

Рассел Б. Об обозначении // Рассел Б. Избранные труды. Новосибирск, 2007. С. 17-32.
Kripke S. Russell's Notion of Scope // Mind, 2005, Vol. 114, № 456. P. 1005-1037.
Борисов Е.В. О семантике компаративных предикатов // Вестник Том. гос. ун-та. Философия. Социология. Политология. 2013. №2(22).
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