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Semantical games, the alleged ambiguity of ‘is’, and Aristotelian categories

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Hintikka, J. Semantical games, the alleged ambiguity of ‘is’, and Aristotelian categories. Synthese 54, 443–468 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00877688

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