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Publication details [#18901]
Roberts, Lawrence D. 1993. How reference works: explanatory models for indexicals, descriptions and opacity. State University of New York Press. x + 192 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
ISBN
0 7914 1576 7
Annotation
This study on the functioning of singular reference provides a description of underlying entities and processes, incorporating pragmatic and psychological factors. Distinguishing between specificatory and explanatory theories, R. proposes a communicational instead of a predicate logic paradigm, whilst using the figure-ground model of singular reference to explain indexical reference and facts about referentially opaque contexts.