A mediated reference theory (also indirect reference theory) is any semantic theory that posits that words refer to something in the external world, but...

causal theory of reference or historical chain theory of reference is a theory of how terms acquire specific referents based on evidence. Such theories have...

with the descriptivist theory, which has been called the mediated reference theory or Frege–Russell view. In the 1970s, this theory came under attack from...

philosopher Gottlob Frege argued against it, and contrasted it with mediated reference theory. In 1953, with his Philosophical Investigations, Wittgenstein...

interacts with the world are called theories of reference. Gottlob Frege was an advocate of a mediated reference theory. Frege divided the semantic content...

might be picked out by more than one sense. This sort of theory is called a mediated reference theory. Frege argued that, ultimately, the same bifurcation...

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whales don't in fact fit the theory we had about what makes something a fish. Theory-theory also postulates that people's theories about the world are what...

Frege's paper "On Sense and Reference" (1892) is seminal, containing Frege's puzzles and providing a mediated reference theory. His paper "The Thought: A...

between the sense and reference (Sinn und Bedeutung) of names and other expressions, sometimes said to involve a mediated reference theory. As a philosopher...

goes back to J. L. Austin's development of performative utterances and his theory of locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary acts. Speech acts serve...

all possible worlds. Ideational theories, also called mentalist theories, are not primarily interested in the reference of expressions and instead explain...

Hellenistic theories of signs. Among the mainstream in the theories of signs, i.e., that of Aristotle and that of Stoics, the former theory filtered into...

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mediated by cultural tools and controlled by an individual. Vygotsky came to the conclusion that consciousness is possible because of the mediated nature...

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The theory of descriptions is the philosopher Bertrand Russell's most significant contribution to the philosophy of language. It is also known as Russell's...

turned to text-based discourse occurring in various formats of computer-mediated communication as a viable site for linguistic inquiry. The study of writing...

is that meaning is use. According to the use theory of meaning, the words are not defined by reference to the objects they designate or by the mental...

philosophical inspiration for modern cognitive psychotherapy, particularly as mediated by Albert Ellis' Rational-Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT), the major precursor...

combined by the syntactic operation. As a guideline for constructing semantic theories, this is generally taken, as in the influential work on the philosophy...

the schemata or inferential structure of the argument. In argumentation theory or informal logic, an argument form is sometimes seen as a broader notion...

simplexes. See also copula for the consequences of the verb to be on the theory of sentence structure. One traditional scheme for classifying English sentences...

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Supposition theory was a branch of medieval logic that was probably aimed at giving accounts of issues similar to modern accounts of reference, plurality...

cybernetics, social theory, ethics and the study of language and information. The logic of information, also known as the logical theory of information, considers...

actual thing or set of things a sign refers to. See Dyadic signs and Reference (semantics). Without intension of some sort, a word has no meaning. For...

hymen, gram, spacing).: 19 [jargon][further explanation needed] Derrida's theories on deconstruction were themselves influenced by the work of linguists such...

The theory of mediation, which is the principal referent of the research group of the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Language Research (L.I.R.L.), is...