Referents and fixing reference

Howard Wettstein

pp. 101-110

in: Alessandro Capone, Marco Carapezza, Franco Lo Piparo (eds), Further advances in pragmatics and philosophy II, Berlin, Springer, 2019

Abstrakt

The first of the following two notes concerns the notion of a referent; the second explores an idea that became central in the field with the publication of Kripke's Naming and Necessity: reference fixing.