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<p>This book deals with the main proponents of the causal and descriptivist reference theories on natural kind terms. The two main types of contemporary reference theories on natural kind terms are the causal and the descriptivist theories. The author analyzes the main versions of these two types of theories and claims that the differences between them are not as great as it is usually assumed. He alleges that the ostensive reference fixing and reference borrowing theories should be descriptive-

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Author
Luis Fernández Moreno
Publisher
Peter Lang AG : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Published
2016
Language
EN
ISBN
9783631699041
Category
language
Subjects
Language Learning, Linguistics, Literary Criticism
Updated
2026-03-25

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