4972 | I may regard a thought about Phosphorus as true, and the same thought about Hesperus as false [Frege] |
4570 | Russell assumes that expressions refer, but actually speakers refer by using expressions [Cooper,DE on Russell] |
8357 | If an utterance fails to refer then it is a pseudo-use, though a speaker may think they assert something [Strawson,P] |
8355 | Expressions don't refer; people use expressions to refer [Strawson,P] |
5815 | Whether a definite description is referential or attributive depends on the speaker's intention [Donnellan] |
10459 | Context does not create reference; it is just something speakers can exploit [Bach] |
10460 | 'That duck' may not refer to the most obvious one in the group [Bach] |
10461 | What a pronoun like 'he' refers back to is usually a matter of speaker's intentions [Bach] |
10462 | Information comes from knowing who is speaking, not just from interpretation of the utterance [Bach] |
10434 | Even a quantifier like 'someone' can be used referentially [Sainsbury] |
15182 | Because some entities overlap, reference must have analytic individuation principles [Sidelle] |
21650 | No language is semantically referential; it all occurs at the level of thought or utterance [Pietroski, by Hofweber] |