Full Idea
It takes, over and above the possession of sense, the truth of relevant contexts to ensure reference.
Gist of Idea
Reference needs truth as well as sense
Source
B Hale / C Wright (The Metaontology of Abstraction [2009], §9)
Book Reference
'Metametaphysics', ed/tr. Chalmers/Manley/Wasserman [OUP 2009], p.208
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?