Reference without Referents

✍ R. M. Sainsbury 📂 Library 📅 2007 🏛 Oxford University Press, USA 🌐 English

Reference is a central topic in philosophy of language, and has been the main focus of discussion about how language relates to the world. R. M. Sainsbury sets out a new approach to the concept, which promises to bring to an end some long-standing debates in semantic theory. Lucid and accessible, an

Acoustics. Preferred reference quantitie

📁 Acoustics. Preferred reference quantities for acoustic levels.

📂 Scientific

Acoustics. Preferred reference quantitie

📁 Acoustics. Preferred reference quantities for acoustic levels.

📂 Scientific

Reference-Dependent Preferences: A Theor

📁 Reference-Dependent Preferences: A Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of Individual Reference-Point Formation

✍ Evelyn Stommel (auth.) 📂 Library 📅 2013 🏛 Gabler Verlag 🌐 English

<p><p>Most of our daily decisions are made under uncertainty and risk, without complete information about all relevant aspects. We all constantly make such decisions, from the simplest “should I take my raincoat today?” to more serious examples, such as those on investment and portfolio decisions, h

Reference and Referent Accessibility

📁 Reference and Referent Accessibility

✍ Thorstein Fretheim (ed.), Jeanette K. Gundel (ed.) 📂 Library 📅 1996 🏛 John Benjamins 🌐 English

The papers in this volume are concerned with the question of how a speaker’s intended referent is interpreted by the addressee. Topics include the interpretation of coreferential vs. disjoint reference, the role of intonation, syntactic form and animacy in reference understanding, and the way in whi

Spacetime without Reference Frames

📁 Spacetime without Reference Frames

✍ Tamás Matolcsi 📂 Library 📅 2018 🏛 Society for the Unity of Science and Technology 🌐 English

Reference frames are not necessary. It is true for Galilean relativistic (nonrelativistic) spacetime and for special relativistic one as well. The absolute, geometric, reference frame free formalism provides deep insight and clear understanding.