Browsing Philosophy by Subject "reference"
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Reference and Reinterpretation
(University of Waterloo, 2007-10-02)Reference is the relation held to obtain between an expression and what a speaker or thinker intends the expression to represent. Reference is a component of interpretation, the process of giving terms, sentences, and ... -
Rigid Designation, the Modal Argument, and the Nominal Description Theory
(University of Waterloo, 2005)In this thesis, I describe and evaluate two recent accounts of naming. These accounts are motivated by Kripke?s response to Russell?s Description Theory of Names (DTN). Particularly, I consider Kripke?s Modal Argument ...