Full Idea
Wright says we should accord to contextually defined abstract terms a genuine full-blown reference to objects.
Gist of Idea
Contextually defined abstract terms genuinely refer to objects
Source
report of Crispin Wright (Frege's Concept of Numbers as Objects [1983]) by Michael Dummett - Frege philosophy of mathematics Ch.18
Book Reference
Dummett,Michael: 'Frege: philosophy of mathematics' [Duckworth 1991], p.226
A Reaction
This is the punch line of Wright's neo-logicist programme. See Idea 9868 for his view of reference. Dummett regards this strong view of contextual definition as 'exorbitant'. Wright's view strikes me as blatantly false.
Related Idea
Idea 9868 An expression refers if it is a singular term in some true sentences [Wright,C, by Dummett]