Referring

On Referring

✍ Strawson, P F 📂 Fiction 📅 0 🌐 English ⚖ 622 KB

Referring to God

✍ William P. Alston 📂 Article 📅 1988 🏛 Springer Netherlands 🌐 English ⚖ 893 KB

It is commonly supposed that one succeeds in referring to God only if one employs, or at least has in reserve, a description that uniquely picks out God, e.g., 'the absolutely perfect being', or 'creator of the universe'. As the above disjunction indicates, the view might be that S refers to X only

Referring to Artifacts

✍ Kornblith, Hilary 📂 Fiction 📅 0 🌐 English ⚖ 107 KB

Referring to nonexistent objects

✍ Terence Parsons 📂 Article 📅 1979 🏛 Springer US 🌐 English ⚖ 744 KB

they react differently when they realize what they've done in each case. I'm going to give you two conversations. In each conversation there are two characters, A and B, plus one outsider. In the first conversation speaker B plays the devil's advocate; you're supposed to fired speaker A's reactions

Mr Strawson on Referring

✍ Russell, Bertrand 📂 Fiction 📅 0 🌐 English ⚖ 133 KB

Against structured referring expressions

✍ Arthur Sullivan 📂 Article 📅 2008 🏛 Springer Netherlands 🌐 English ⚖ 302 KB