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The Reference Book (Paperback)
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The Reference Book (Paperback)
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John Hawthorne and David Manley present an original treatment of
the semantic phenomenon of reference and the cognitive phenomenon
of singular thought. In Part I, they argue against the idea that
either is tied to a special relation of causal or epistemic
acquaintance. Part II challenges the alleged semantic rift between
definite and indefinite descriptions on the one hand, and names and
demonstratives on the other-a division that has been motivated in
part by appeals to considerations of acquaintance. Drawing on
recent work in linguistics and philosophical semantics, Hawthorne
and Manley explore a more unified account of all four types of
expression according to which none of them paradigmatically fits
the profile of a referential term. On the preferred framework put
forward in The Reference Book, all four types of expression involve
existential quantification but admit of uses that exhibit many of
the traits associated with reference-a phenomenon that is due to
the presence of what Hawthorne and Manley call a 'singular
restriction' on the existentially quantified domain. The book
concludes by drawing out some implications of the proposed semantic
picture for the traditional categories of reference and singular
thought.
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