Reference and the Concept of Identification: a Contrastive Study

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July 14, 2012

 

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(Lyons, 1981: 220). Most of the literature on reference is devoted to such issues as how the notion of reference is manipulated to carry out the task of identification by means of various referring expressions which vary in the degree of the power of identification they supply about their referents. The literature reveals that two camps have disputed over the issue of proper names when they are used as referring expressions...
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One camp believes that proper nouns have reference by means of the descriptive value they have a bout their referents. This view is mainly adopted by Frege and Russel. To Russel, proper names are used as "disguised definite descriptions" from a logical point of view whereas, to Frege a proper name has both sense and reference; the relation of denotation between a name and a referent is deeply rooted in the sense of that name...
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