How to Misspell 'Paris'

Miller, J. T. M.

Abstract

One feature of language is that we are able to make mistakes in our use of language. Amongst other sorts of mistakes, we can misspeak, misspell, missign, or misunderstand. Given this, it seems that our metaphysics of words should be flexible enough to accommodate such mistakes. It has been argued that a nominalist account of words cannot accommodate the phenomenon of misspelling. I sketch a nominalist trope-bundle view of words that can.

Citation

Miller, J. T. M. (2024). How to Misspell 'Paris'. Philosophy, 99(4), 511-537. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031819124000226

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Apr 22, 2024
• Online Publication Date: Mar 18, 2025
• Publication Date: 2024-10
• Deposit Date: Apr 24, 2024
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 25, 2025
• Journal: Philosophy
• Print ISSN: 0031-8191
• Electronic ISSN: 1469-817X
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 99
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 511-537
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031819124000226
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2395367
• Related Public URLs: https://philpapers.org/rec/MILHTM-5