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Ideas from 'The Problem of Empty Names' by Marga Reimer [2001], by Theme Structure

[found in 'Australasian Journal of Philosophy' (ed/tr -) [- ,]].

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5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / e. Empty names
18946 Unreflectively, we all assume there are nonexistents, and we can refer to them
                        Full Idea: As speakers of the language, we unreflectively assume that there are nonexistents, and that reference to them is possible.
                        From: Marga Reimer (The Problem of Empty Names [2001], p.499), quoted by Sarah Sawyer - Empty Names 4
                        A reaction: Sarah Swoyer quotes this as a good solution to the problem of empty names, and I like it. It introduces a two-tier picture of our understanding of the world, as 'unreflective' and 'reflective', but that seems good. We accept numbers 'unreflectively'.