God willfully established a connection between each Sanskrit word and its meaning, saying "let this word refer to this thing".
Though we refer to this thing as a case for the sake of simplicity, it's a bit of a misnomer; it's not so much something that encases the iPhone 4, as it is a set of fancy adhesive sheets.
Chaungo considers what it means for a proposition to be true and expresses what turns out to be a correspondence theory of truth — according to which the proposition "This is a bottle" is true if the object it refers to, this thing, is indeed a bottle.
Sometimes you have to look on it to see, you know, how do you refer these things..
"I think in all professions, people like shorthand ways of referring to things and using popular culture references to refer to things.
On this sort of view, we occasionally use sentences to say true or false things about the world, and occasionally use names to refer to things; but this is just one thing we can do with names and sentences, and is not a claim about the meanings of those expressions.
This may refer to things you wouldn't really think of.
If we refer to a thing's existence, we are only referring to a fact about the thing, that it exists.
Which is why we are trying to refer the whole thing, make it more buzzy.
I've often used the word "sovereignty" to refer to one thing it allows you.
