Smoove D's Scribings
Folk Linguistics and the Ontology of Words
This is a shorter (11-ish page) version of a chapter in my dissertation. I argue that "Folk Linguistics" intuitions cannot be used to support the "standard view" of words as physical objects (or classes of such objects) which have tehir meanings as a result of contingent conventions. Rather, "Folk linguistics" appears to motivate precisely the opposite claims - that words are abstract objects that have their meanings necessarily. I call this the "Theory of Thick Words".
My PhD. dissertation