Abstract
Many philosophers of language believe that sense and reference are two essential components of linguistic meaning. The reference of an expression is (roughly) that which the expression is used to talk about; the sense of an expression is (roughly) the criterion an entity must satisfy in order to be the reference of that expression. The intuitive, nontechnical notion coming closest to the notion of ‘sense’ is that of meaning.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science |
| Subtitle of host publication | Nadel/Cognitive |
| Publisher | Wiley |
| Pages | 1-5 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780470018866 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780470016190 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 1 2006 |
Keywords
- definite descriptions
- indexicals
- meaning
- names
- proposition
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Medicine
- General Neuroscience
- General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
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