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Ideas for Stilpo, Gorgias and B Hale / C Wright

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19. Language / B. Reference / 4. Descriptive Reference / a. Sense and reference

12231	Reference needs truth as well as sense [Hale/Wright]
	Full Idea: It takes, over and above the possession of sense, the truth of relevant contexts to ensure reference.
	From: B Hale / C Wright (The Metaontology of Abstraction [2009], §9)
	A reaction: Reference purely through sense was discredited by Kripke. The present idea challenges Kripke's baptismal realist approach. How do you 'baptise' an abstract object? But isn't reference needed prior to the establishment of truth?