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Ideas for 'Essays on Intellectual Powers: Conception', 'On Copernicanism and Relativity of Motion' and 'A Structural Account of Mathematics'

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

23646

Reference is by name, or a term-plus-circumstance, or ostensively, or by description [Reid]

19. Language / B. Reference / 3. Direct Reference / b. Causal reference

9547	Mathematical entities are causally inert, so the causal theory of reference won't work for them [Chihara]

19. Language / B. Reference / 3. Direct Reference / c. Social reference

23645

A word's meaning is the thing conceived, as fixed by linguistic experts [Reid]