Citations:referent

English citations of referent

• 1972, Saul A. Kripke, Naming and Necessity‎^[1]:

  The basic problem for any view such as Mill's is how we can determine what the referent of a name, as used by a given speaker, is.

• 1978, John A. Hawkins, Definiteness and Indefiniteness‎^[2]:

  Thus, the act of referring anaphorically involves a form of instruction to the hearer to match the linguistic referent of the definite description with a particular object in his mind, an object which has been entered into his memory store in the course of some previous conversation with that speaker.

• 2005, Scott Soames, Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century‎^[3]:

  Second, even if we assume that speakers always have an appropriate parasitic description associated with a name, it would have to be shown that they somehow accord this description priority in determining the referent of the name over all other descriptions that they associate with it.