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

designators". Causal theory of reference Contextualism and Context principle Descriptivist theory of names Entity realism Frege's puzzle Sense and reference The...

descriptivism (see also Kripke's causal theory of reference). The whole philosophical enterprise of studying reference has been critiqued by linguist Noam...

descriptivist theory, which has been called the mediated reference theory or Frege–Russell view. In the 1970s, this theory came under attack from causal theorists...

The causal sets program is an approach to quantum gravity. Its founding principles are that spacetime is fundamentally discrete (a collection of discrete...

the number of planets in that world. John McDowell supplies cognitive and reference-determining roles. Michael Devitt treats senses as causal-historical...

others, he developed the causal theory of reference, and formulated an original theory of meaning, introducing the notion of semantic externalism based...

Kripke's causal theory of reference, disputing the descriptivist theory found in Gottlob Frege's concept of sense and Bertrand Russell's theory of descriptions...

causal theory of reference, where a word describing a spatio-temporal object is meaningful if and only if it possesses an information-carrying causal...

A mediated reference theory (also indirect reference theory) is any semantic theory that posits that words refer to something in the external world, but...

analyzed and understood by reference to their functions. Formal theories of grammar seek to define the different elements of language and describe the...

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

descriptions, causal relations between these mental events are not describable by strict physical laws. Hence, Davidson proposes an identity theory of mind without...

"A Causal Theory of Knowing" is a philosophical essay written by Alvin Goldman in 1967, published in The Journal of Philosophy. It is based on existing...

complex is independent because it realises a statement. What is stated is the causal nexus between having no friend and not going out. When such a statement...

descriptivist theory with a causal theory of reference. In it he introduced the term rigid designator. According to one author, "In the philosophy of language...

occurrence of something else. A natural sign bears a causal relation to its object—for instance, thunder is a sign of storm, or medical symptoms a sign of disease...

needed] The first notions of determinism appears to originate with the Stoics, as part of their theory of universal causal determinism. The resulting...

A cant is the jargon or language of a group, often employed to exclude or mislead people outside the group. It may also be called a cryptolect, argot,...

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

which are also said to be causal factors for it, and all lie in its past. An effect can in turn be a cause of, or causal factor for, many other effects...

non-isomorphically specifiable part of entities. Psillos also defends David Lewis's descriptive-causal theory of reference (according to which the abandoned...

all of us between knowing that something is the case and knowing how to do things. In their theories of knowledge they concentrate on the discovery of truths...

can be necessary. It draws on a number of philosophical concepts such as necessity, the causal theory of reference, rigidity, and the a priori–a posteriori...

whole groups of animals, and inferring possible causal explanations from these. This style is common in modern biology when large amounts of data become...

realism, a form of scientific realism Entitativity Everything Html entity Non-physical entity Object (philosophy) Circular reference Entitize on Wiktionary...

and logic, a deflationary theory of truth (also semantic deflationism or simply deflationism) is one of a family of theories that all have in common the...

theory has faced a number of criticisms. In particular, it is not clear how we could know what goes on in other worlds. After all, they are causally disconnected...

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...

(1977) Remarks on Colour (1991), remarks on Goethe's Theory of Colours. On Certainty, collection of aphorisms discussing the relation between knowledge...