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Copeland, James and D. Proudfoot. 2002. Wittgenstein's deflationary account of reference. Language & Communication 22 (3) : 331–351.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

Traditional accounts state that reference consists in a mind-object relation, effected by a mental act and mediated by internal mental representations. Contemporary theories share this act-content-object picture. The core of the traditional view is the thesis that reference and intentionality are relational. This article rejects the RR-hypothesis and advances a deflationary account of reference and intentionality, according to which neither is relational.