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I'm trying to define a field of interest concerning art and technology (and find a particular book)
This question partly arises from my having seen a book that I can no longer find. I'm trying to do some design criticism / art criticism and the particular focus is how a technology (equivalently, an ...
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What does "meaning" mean for Dummet?
Michael Dummet in 5th chapter of his book Frege: Philosophy of language analyses the sense and reference of Gottlob Frege. Dummet in addition of these terms ("sense" and "referent")...
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Why does a word refer to the particular object it refers to?
Why does a word refer to the particular object it refers to? For example, "oxygen" in english refers to a particular element with 8 protons in its nucleus. Why does "oxygen", ...
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What is the difference between semantic and referential indeterminacy?
What is the difference between semantic and referential indeterminacy? All I know is that the latter is included in the former, or so I recall reading sometime; I take the latter to refer to ...
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A combined theory of reference for proper names
According to this SEP article, there are two common accounts of how proper names. One account holds that the name has a meaning or sense which is a concept (or something like it), and that you get to ...
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What's the point of developing various theories of reference?
I cannot comprehend how is it philosophically interesting to research this stuff: whether causal historical-theory is correct or not etc. I am really puzzled by people working in the field: Clearly, ...
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