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In general, a reference is something that refers to or designates something else, or acts as a connection or a link between two things. The objects it links may be concrete, such as books or locations, or abstract, such as data, thoughts, or memories. The object which is named by a reference, or to which the reference points, is the referent.
The term reference is used with different specialized meanings in a variety of fields, as follows:
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Re: Wilson's blog, nice to see some reference to some kind of thought-out, academic theories rather than just cliches for a change
AndrewFitchett (Andrew Fitchett) Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:29:43 -0000
Re: Wilson's blog, nice to see some reference to some kind of thought-out, academic theories rather than just cliches for a change
A Unified Theory of Names - Article by John Justice, presented at the 20th World Congress of Philosophy.
Aspects of a Theory of Singular Reference - William Greenberg's 1982 UCLA dissertation.
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Brandom's solution to Kripke's puzzle - Frege's example of Hesperus and Phosphorous is widely held to defeat Millian theories of meaning. Kripke has devised an alternate puzzle that seems to show that the same problem exists in Fregean accounts. Here Carl Penco discusses Brandom's resolution of this paradox.
Fodor On Frege Cases - Article by Murat Aydede and Philip Robbins. Subtitled `Are Frege Cases Exceptions to Intentional Generalizations?'
On Naming and Possibility in Kripke and in the Tractatus - Article by María Cerezo, presented at the 20th World Congress of Philosophy.
On the Model Theory of Knowledge - An essay by John McCarthy on the use of model theory, with a bias towards knowledge representation. Strong on Kripke models.
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Sellars-Harman Correspondence - Correspondence between Wilfrid Sellars and Gilbert Harman on truth. Illuminating discussion on the issue of whether a Tarskian semantics provides an adequate basis for a correspondence theory of truth.
Singular Propositions - Singular propositions (also called `Russellian propositions') are propositions that are about a particular object or individual in virtue of having the object or individual as a constituent of the proposition. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by G. W. Fitch.
The Reference of Theoretical Terms - Article by Renate Duerr, presented at the 20th World Congress of Philosophy.
The Theory of Abstract Objects - Web resource provided by Edward Zalta, centering upon his `Principia Metaphysica', a general calculus for the expression of theories of abstract objects. Includes a tutorial section.
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