ON THE NATURE OF INTENTIONAL REFERENCE

• Authors: Cmorej P.
• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

Speaker's reference is an intentional act directed, via an expression, at an object - an intentional object. The author of the paper tries to find an answer to the following question: What does a speaker refer to when he does not know what a description or a proper name used refers to? He argues that, if the speaker uses such a description, his reference is not directed at the referent of the description but at its meaning. If the speaker uses a proper name whose meaning is not known to him, he can refer neither to the referent nor to the meaning of that name.

Keywords

EN

INTENTIONAL ACT; INTENTIONAL REFERENCE; SPEAKER'S REFERENCE

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
• Journal: Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
• Year: 2005
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 397-406
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Cmorej P.

• P. Cmorej, Filozofický ústav SAV, Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

06SKAAAA00882113