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<journal-id>0011-1503</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Crítica (México, D.F.)]]></journal-title>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22201/iifs.18704905e.2025.1758</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[La importancia de ser complejo]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[The Importance of Being Complex]]></article-title>
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<surname><![CDATA[Barrero Guzmán]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Tomás]]></given-names>
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<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad de los Andes Departamento de Filosofía ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Colombia</country>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>00</month>
<year>2025</year>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>00</month>
<year>2025</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>57</volume>
<numero>171</numero>
<fpage>67</fpage>
<lpage>89</lpage>
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<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0011-15032025000300067&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S0011-15032025000300067&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S0011-15032025000300067&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen: Según Maite Ezcurdia, los demostrativos son expresiones directamente referenciales con significados lingüísticos complejos. Esta dualidad en niveles de significado, que ella justifica con un análisis de cómo diferentes tipos y usos de demostrativos interactúan anafóricamente, la lleva a concluir que los demostrativos simples son no composicionalmente complejos, mientras que los demostrativos complejos lo son, en parte, por su composición. En este artículo extiendo su metodología y discuto su conclusión. Arguyo que la distinción entre demostrativos se explica por cómo funcionan diferentes tipos de contexto para seleccionar el referente, y no por composición semántica. Como Maite nos enseñó, la complejidad no siempre es composicional.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Summary: According to Maite Ezcurdia, demonstratives are directly referential expressions with complex linguistic meanings. This distinction between levels of meaning resulting from her analysis of how different types and uses of demonstratives anaphorically interact leads her to conclude that simple demonstratives are non-compositionally complex, while complex demonstratives are so, partially, due to composition. In this article, I both extend her methodology and discuss her conclusions. I argue that the distinction between demonstratives results from how different types of contexts of use work to select the referent, not from semantic composition. As Maite taught us, complexity isn&#8217;t always compositional.]]></p></abstract>
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