Sense and the Computation of Reference.

The paper shows how ideas that explain the sense of an expression as a method or algorithm for finding its reference, preshadowed in Frege’s dictum that sense is the way in which a referent is given, can be formalized on the basis of the ideas in Thomason (1980). To this end, the function that sends...

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Published in:	Linguistics & Philosophy Vol. 28; no. 4; pp. 473 - 505
Main Author:	Muskens, Reinhard
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Aug2005
Subjects:	Linguistics Algorithms Logic Semantics (Philosophy) Paradox Language & languages
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