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.
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