A direct reference theory (also called referentialism or referential realism) is a theory of language that claims that the meaning of a word or expression...

stands opposed to direct reference theory. Gottlob Frege is a well-known advocate of mediated reference theories. Similar theories were widely held in...

causal theory of reference or historical chain theory of reference is a theory of how terms acquire specific referents based on evidence. Such theories have...

descended from the use theory of meaning, and has been most notably defended by Wilfrid Sellars and Robert Brandom. The direct reference theory of meaning, the...

Definite description Direct and indirect realism Frege's puzzles Intensional logic Mediated reference theory Temperature paradox Theories of language Use–mention...

to the specific referent within that community. Today[vague] a direct reference theory is common, which holds that proper names refer to their referents...

descriptor in some cases. Theory-theory is a reaction to the previous two theories and develops them further. This theory postulates that categorization...

the philosophy of language, the descriptivist theory of proper names (also descriptivist theory of reference) is the view that the meaning or semantic content...

at UCLA beginning January 2025. Salmon is a proponent of the theory of direct reference. Salmon has provided accounts both of propositional attitudes...

might be picked out by more than one sense. This sort of theory is called a mediated reference theory. Frege argued that, ultimately, the same bifurcation...

mediated reference theory, the inconsistency of belief contexts involving coreferring names cannot be taken as evidence against his direct reference theory of...

all possible worlds. Ideational theories, also called mentalist theories, are not primarily interested in the reference of expressions and instead explain...

theory is a theory of behavioral economics, judgment and decision making that was developed by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky in 1979. The theory was...

The theory of descriptions is the philosopher Bertrand Russell's most significant contribution to the philosophy of language. It is also known as Russell's...

The Sam Vimes theory of socioeconomic unfairness, often called simply the boots theory, is an economic theory that people in poverty have to buy cheap...

Word and Object (1960). In this regard, he defended the direct attribution theory of reference in The First Person (1981). He argues that we refer to things...

Hellenistic theories of signs. Among the mainstream in the theories of signs, i.e., that of Aristotle and that of Stoics, the former theory filtered into...

simplexes. See also copula for the consequences of the verb to be on the theory of sentence structure. One traditional scheme for classifying English sentences...

and coproducts agree, and the direct sum is either of them: cf. biproduct. General case: In category theory the direct sum is often but not always the...

never formally advanced any such hypothesis. A strong version of relativist theory was developed from the late 1920s by the German linguist Leo Weisgerber...

combined by the syntactic operation. As a guideline for constructing semantic theories, this is generally taken, as in the influential work on the philosophy...

Supposition theory was a branch of medieval logic that was probably aimed at giving accounts of issues similar to modern accounts of reference, plurality...

mathematician, and public intellectual. He had influence on mathematics, logic, set theory, and various areas of analytic philosophy. He was one of the early 20th...

between the sense and reference (Sinn und Bedeutung) of names and other expressions, sometimes said to involve a mediated reference theory. As a philosopher...

who both drew direct inspiration from their reading of the 1878 Mémoire. Saussure had a major impact on the development of linguistic theory in the first...

hymen, gram, spacing).: 19 [jargon][further explanation needed] Derrida's theories on deconstruction were themselves influenced by the work of linguists such...

its structures are best analyzed and understood by reference to their functions. Formal theories of grammar seek to define the different elements of...

water is necessarily H2O. Causal theory of reference Class versus instance Counterpart theory Direct reference theory Non-rigid designator Vivid designator...

goes back to J. L. Austin's development of performative utterances and his theory of locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary acts. Speech acts serve...

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