Is Reference Essential to Meaning?. (3rd December 2020)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Is Reference Essential to Meaning?. (3rd December 2020)
- Main Title:
- Is Reference Essential to Meaning?
- Authors:
- Richard, Mark
- Abstract:
- Most linguists and philosophers will tell you that whatever meaning is, it determines the reference of names, the satisfaction conditions of nouns and verbs, the truth conditions of sentences; in linguist speak, meaning determines semantic value. So a change in semantic value implies a change in meaning. So the semantic value a meaning determines is essential to that meaning: holding contributions from context constant, if two words have different semantic values they cannot mean the same thing. If this is correct, then in a fairly straightforward sense reference is essential to meaning. In this paper I argue that reference is not essential to meaning by giving an example in which groups in different circumstances use a phrase with the same meaning but a different reference.
- Is Part Of:
- Metaphysics. Volume 3:Number 1(2020)
- Journal:
- Metaphysics
- Issue:
- Volume 3:Number 1(2020)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 3, Issue 1 (2020)
- Year:
- 2020
- Volume:
- 3
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2020-0003-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 68
- Page End:
- 80
- Publication Date:
- 2020-12-03
- Subjects:
- reference -- meaning -- Quine -- philosophy of biology -- essential properties
110 - Journal URLs:
- https://metaphysicsjournal.com/ ↗
- DOI:
- 10.5334/met.36 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 2515-8279
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