This chapter takes a closer look at complex terms that make reference to abstract objects, such as the number eight, the numeral eight, and the color green. It gives a general syntactic characterization of such terms and sketches a semantics of them as reifying terms, introducing an object on the basis of the mentioning of a (generally a non-referential) expression. The chapter discusses in greater detail particular reifying terms, namely those referring to numbers, expressions or colors. Finally it presents syntactic criteria for the ‘quasi-referential’ status of the expression following the sortal in a reifying term.
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