DENOTATION AND REFERENCE

• Authors: Materna Pavel
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The terms denotation and reference are commonly used as synonyms. A more fine-grained analysis of natural language as offered by 'Transparent Intensional Logic' (TIL) shows that we can distinguish these terms in the case of empirical expressions. The latter are shown to denote non-trivial intensions while their reference (if any) is the value of these intensions in the actual world.

Keywords

EN

DENOTATION; INTENSIONS; LANGUAGE; MEANING; 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: 2010
• Volume: 17
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 3-20
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Materna Pavel,

• Pavel Materna, Filosoficky ustav AV CR, Jilska 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11SKAAAA090516