Roads to reference : an essay on reference fixing in natural language /

How is it that words come to stand for the things they stand for? Is the thing that a word stands for - its reference - fully identified or described by conventions known to the users of the word? Or is there a more roundabout relation between the reference of a word and the conventions that determi...

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Main Author: Gómez Torrente, Mario, 1967-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Oxford University Press, 2019.
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