Naming and Reference: The Link of Word to Object Nelson R. J.
The question of how language relates to the world is one of the most important problems of philosophy. What the word God' refers to and the question Does God exist?' are clearly linked. The existence…
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The question of how language relates to the world is one of the most important problems of philosophy. What the word God' refers to and the question Does God exist?' are clearly linked. The existence or non-existence of God (or electrons or unicorns) is directly related to the issue of what and how a name names. Naming and Reference tackles the challenge of explaining the referring power of names. More specifically it explores the reference of lexical terms (especially proper names and pronouns) and the issue of empty or speculative names such as Satan' and leptons'. The lack of semantics of such terms is a serious difficulty for linguistics, cognitive science and epistemology. In the first half of the book, a survey of the history of the subject is made from Locke to Kripke and Fodor. The second half contains a theory of reference which takes seriously the causal notion of
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