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Miller, George A. 1982. Some problems in the theory of demonstrative reference. In Jarvella, Robert J. and Wolfgang H. Klein, eds. Speech, place, and action. J. Wiley. pp. 61–72.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

demonstrative reference | thought | type vs. token

Annotation

The central problem is the type-token differentiation: a psychological theory of thinking must presuppose some way of individuating tokens of the same type of thought. The only way to do so is said to be in terms of contexts in which thought-tokens occur. From this point of view demonstrative reference is discussed.