Predication and identity in copular sentences

There are different types of copular sentence. \textit{Cicero is tall} does not mean the same thing as \textit{Cicero is Tully}. The former is typically called a predication and the latter an identity. But where does this difference come from (and the difference between these sentences and \textit{C...

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Main Author: Woodard, Andrew
Published: Durham University 2018
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.761510