The Metaphysics of Aphonic and Implicit Reference Stephen Neale
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[a complaint I hear is that] if we make what a speaker says directly dependent upon what the speaker is referring to—rather than on what the referring expressions he is using refer to—we are effectively (a) prevented from talking sensibly about both the (purported) rigidity and the (purportedly) directly referential nature of (e.g.) proper names and demonstratives, (b) prevented from drawing upon the fertile idea that reference is determined causally, and (c) facing immediate and certain disaster because referring (or speaker’s reference as it is often called) is a thoroughly intentional notion that is undermined by an array of cases involving perceptual, epistemic, or linguistic error, or just plain ignorance, on the speaker’s part. (Neale, 2008: 384)
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