Sentence examples for linguistic reference from inspiring English sources

Assuming that at least certain sorts of terms do in fact refer, the central question regarding linguistic reference becomes: how do such terms refer?

Accordingly, this entry will focus almost entirely on linguistic reference.

Burge (1982) extends this conclusion from linguistic reference to mental content.

Indeed, for Husserl, the theory of intentionality is a generalization of the theory of linguistic reference: as linguistic reference is mediated by sense, so intentional reference is mediated by noematic sense.

The complexities which arise in trying to understand the notion of linguistic reference don't end with names and indexicals.

Should that turn out to be the case, it raises the question of whether we should in fact posit there to be a unified phenomenon of linguistic reference.

Elsewhere online, there are unique linguistic references that use interactive technology to stretch the boundaries of the traditional dictionary and thesaurus.

More cunningly, Safire larded the columns with less-than-subliminal linguistic references to Watergate.

Character, on the other hand, is more akin to linguistic meaning than reference and is supposed (according to Kaplan) to account for cognitive significance.

An indexical is, roughly speaking, a linguistic expression whose reference can shift from context to context.

If linguistic meaning determines reference in a context (in the way that Kaplan's characters do), then all occurrences of 'that' in (26) have the same reference with respect to any given context.