Sentence examples similar to referent- from inspiring English sources

If the speaker intends to use an indexical in some non-standard way to refer to x, then it is very likely that she will also take it to be impossible for her listener to identify the object to which she purportedly intends to refer as the referent.

If the sign's proper function is to refer to its referent, it is self-cancelling.

The extension of a denoting expression, or term, such as a name or a definite description is its referent, the thing that it refers to; the extension of a predicate is the set of things it applies to; and the extension of a sentence is its truth value.

But it seems intuitively implausible to suppose that the name 'Aristotle' — as we in fact use that name in the actual world — could be used to refer to anyone other than its referent in the actual world, namely Aristotle.

According to Frege, the semantic value of a sentence is just its truth-value, and the semantic value of a proper name is its referent (that is, the object to which it refers).

The indexical component (this liquid, our rivers) is crucial to reference determination: it wouldn't do to identify the referent of 'water' by way of some description ("liquid, transparent, quenches thirst, boils at 100°C, etc")., for something might fit the description yet fail to be water, as in Putnam's famous Twin Earth thought experiment (see the entry on reference).

The kernel of Kripke's criticism rests on the intuitive idea that a sentence containing a referring proper name expresses a singular proposition about the referent independently of any qualitative characterization of the referent but that a corresponding sentence containing a description does not so express a singular proposition.

Thus, if on the old view the "meaning" of an expression (the descriptions speakers associated with it) fixed the reference of the expression, on the new theory, the referent fixes the meaning.

Moreover, they clearly use zhi to mean simply "point" or "refer" as a verb and "what is pointed out" or "referent" as a noun (cf. Graham 1989: 91, Hansen 1992: 259-61).

Rather, theoretical terms were supposed to refer to unobservable, mind-independent entities, so that, for example, the referent of the term 'atom' would be real atoms and not samples of 'logical constructions' out of sense data (or other kinds of directly perceivable things).

But while he matches in number, it is a mismatch in gender: there is a strong chance the unknown referent is female.