The Reference Book
by John Hawthorne, David Manley
264 pages· 2012· ISBN 9780199693672
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How do language and thought connect to things in the world? John Hawthorne and David Manley offer an original and ambitious treatment of the semantic phenomenon of reference and the cognitive phenomenon of singular thought, leading to a new unified account of definite and indefinite descriptions, names, and demonstratives.
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