Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Donald Davidson, J.M.E. McTaggart and Nathan Salmon

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19. Language / B. Reference / 1. Reference theories

6388	Is reference the key place where language and the world meet? [Davidson]

6390	With a holistic approach, we can give up reference in empirical theories of language [Davidson]

18886

Frege's 'sense' solves four tricky puzzles [Salmon,N]

19. Language / B. Reference / 3. Direct Reference / a. Direct reference

18887

The perfect case of direct reference is a variable which has been assigned a value [Salmon,N]

18885

Kripke and Putnam made false claims that direct reference implies essentialism [Salmon,N]

19. Language / B. Reference / 4. Descriptive Reference / b. Reference by description

6389	To explain the reference of a name, you must explain its sentence-role, so reference can't be defined nonlinguistically [Davidson]