Sentence examples for account of reference from inspiring English sources

There are two common (not necessarily exclusive) responses to this: (I) Develop an account of reference according to which the abandoned theoretical terms are regarded as successfully referring after all.

Kuhn's and Feyerabend's meaning holism, with devastating consequences for realism, presupposes this account of reference.

A proper semantics for theoretical terms involves an account of reference and one of meaning and understanding.

The same charge applies to Putnam's (1975) causal account of reference and meaning, which Putnam himself abandoned in his (1980).

Because of this, it is not only an account of reference but also one of meaning for theoretical terms.

With Field, we might propose to supplement clauses like these with an account of reference and satisfaction.

Second, it promises to ensure a more stable notion of reference than in purely descriptivist accounts of reference and meaning.

Accounts of reference and meaning other than these play no significant role in the philosophy of science.

Some advocates envision causal accounts of reference and satisfaction (cf. Field 1972; Devitt 1982, 1984; Schmitt 1995; Kirkham 1992, chaps. 5-6).

Now, there are three major accounts of reference and meaning that have been used, implicitly or explicitly, for the semantics of theoretical terms: (i) the descriptivist picture, (ii) causal and causal-historical theories and (iii) hybrid ones that combine descriptivist ideas with causal elements (Reimer 2010).

Nor should we think of reference-fixing as somehow determined by the internal states of the theorist, since even theorists are prone to mistakes on externalist accounts of reference-fixing.