1757 | The Electra: she knows this man, but not that he is her brother [Eucleides, by Diog. Laertius] |
21399 | Referring to a person, and speaking about him, are very different [Seneca] |
23646 | Reference is by name, or a term-plus-circumstance, or ostensively, or by description [Reid] |
7634 | Icons resemble their subject, an index is a natural sign, and symbols are conventional [Peirce, by Maund] |
4981 | The reference of a word should be understood as part of the reference of the sentence [Frege] |
4567 | Russell argued with great plausibility that we rarely, if ever, refer with our words [Russell, by Cooper,DE] |
4145 | How do words refer to sensations? [Wittgenstein] |
8470 | Reference is inscrutable, because we cannot choose between theories of numbers [Quine, by Orenstein] |
4712 | Quine says there is no matter of fact about reference - it is 'inscrutable' [Quine, by O'Grady] |
18898 | In standard logic, names are the only way to refer [Sommers] |
6271 | How reference is specified is not what reference is [Putnam] |
2562 | A theory of reference seems needed to pick out objects without ghostly inner states [Rorty] |
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] |
4566 | Any thesis about reference is also a thesis about what exists to be referred to [Cooper,DE] |
4571 | Reference need not be a hit-or-miss affair [Cooper,DE] |
12642 | Co-referring terms differ if they have different causal powers [Fodor] |
12663 | We refer to individuals and to properties, and we use singular terms and predicates [Fodor] |
10446 | Fictional reference is different inside and outside the fiction [Bach] |
10447 | We can refer to fictional entities if they are abstract objects [Bach] |
10443 | You 'allude to', not 'refer to', an individual if you keep their identity vague [Bach] |
13885 | If apparent reference can mislead, then so can apparent lack of reference [Wright,C] |
4995 | Behaviourists doubt whether reference is a single type of relation [Kirk,R] |
9336 | A concept's reference is what makes true the beliefs of its possession conditions [Peacocke, by Horwich] |
18886 | Frege's 'sense' solves four tricky puzzles [Salmon,N] |
22244 | 'Partial reference' is when the subject thinks two objects are one object [Field,H, by Recanati] |
21615 | References to the 'greatest prime number' have no reference, but are meaningful [Williamson] |
16356 | There may be two types of reference in language and thought: descriptive and direct [Recanati] |
12791 | It is said that proper reference is our intellectual link with the world [Laycock] |