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Barber, Alexander
(2011).
URL: http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?K=9780...
Abstract
“Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” This National Rifle Association slogan has a popular analogue in the philosophy of language: words don’t refer to things, people refer to things. This paper looks at how the question of what refers (Words/concepts? People? Both? Neither?) intersects with the phenomenon of opacity. The discussion is used to motivate an important revision to standard intention-based accounts of speaker reference, one that takes due account of the fact that distinct words can have the same referent.
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- 0-85724-909-6, 978-0-85724-909-8
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Funded Project Name Project ID Funding Body Not Set Not Set AHRC (Arts & Humanities Research Council) - Keywords
- semantic opacity; semantic pragmatic interface; speaker reference, semantic reference
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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies > Philosophy
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies
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- © 2011 Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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- Alex Barber