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12 - Reference and Theories of Reference

from Part III - From Truth to Vagueness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 November 2021

By
Genoveva Martí
Edited by
Piotr Stalmaszczyk
Piotr Stalmaszczyk
Affiliation:
University of Lodz, Poland
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Summary

Reference is the relation between the words we use and the pieces of the world those words represent, a relation that allows us to talk about things. If semantics is conceived as a theory of truth conditions, the theory of reference constitutes the foundation of semantics, since it focuses on the fundamental blocks that contribute to truth conditions and that determine the capacity of language to represent fragments of the world.

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The Cambridge Handbook of the Philosophy of Language , pp. 233 - 248
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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