Eye-tracking evidence for the causal-historical theory of reference.

In this paper, we present an experiment that shows conflicting findings from truth-value judgments and eye-tracking data for testing reference assignment of proper names. We argue that if eye-tracking is a more reliable method than truth-value judgment tasks, then our eye-tracking data provide stron...

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Publicado en:Linguistics & Philosophy Vol. 48; no. 3; pp. 573 - 603
Autores principales: Domaneschi, Filippo, D'Agruma, Nicolò, Vignolo, Massimiliano, Ronderos, Camilo R.
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Publicado: Springer Nature Jun2025
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        Moral judgment
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        Causal theory of reference
        Descriptivist theory of reference
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