III - How proper names refer
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30/08/2011Author
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Abstract
This paper develops a new account of reference-fixing for proper names. The account is built around an intuitive claim about reference fixing: the claim that I am a participant in a practice of using α to refer to o only if my uses of α are constrained by the representationally relevant ways it is possible for o to behave. §I raises examples that suggest that a right account of how proper names refer should incorporate this claim. §II provides such an account.
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Dickie , I 2011 , ' III - How proper names refer ' , Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society , vol. 111 , no. 1 , pp. 43-78 . https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9264.2011.00298.x
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Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society
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Peer reviewed
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0066-7374Type
Journal article
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Copyright © The Aristotelian Society, 2011. This work has been made available online in accordance with publisher policies or with permission. Permission for further reuse of this content should be sought from the publisher or the rights holder. This is the author created accepted manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9264.2011.00298.x
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