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Can I read Roads to Reference : An Essay on Reference Fixing in Natural Language on EtoBox?
Roads to Reference : An Essay on Reference Fixing in Natural Language by Mario Gómez-Torrente is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Roads to Reference : An Essay on Reference Fixing in Natural Language about?
How is it that words come to stand for the things they stand for? Is the thing that a word stands for - its reference - fully identified or described by conventions known to the users of the word? Or is there a more roundabout relation between the reference of a word and the conventions that determine or fix it? Do words like 'water', 'three', and 'red' refer to appropriate things, just as the word 'Aristotle' refers to Aristotle? If so, which things are these, and how do they come to be referre
Who reads Roads to Reference : An Essay on Reference Fixing in Natural Language?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Mario Gómez-Torrente
- Publisher
- IRL Press at Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780192585240
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Linguistics, Language Learning, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25