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14 February 2023

9 February 2023

  • curprev 17:5817:58, 9 February 2023Bacchus talk contribsm 895 bytes +28 Text replacement - "theory" to "theory"
  • curprev 16:4416:44, 9 February 2023Bacchus talk contribs 867 bytes +867 Created page with "A '''mediated reference theory''' is any semantic theory that posits that words refer to something in the external world, but insists that there is more to the meaning of a name than simply the object to which it refers. It thus stands opposed to direct reference theory. Gottlob Frege is a well-known advocate of mediated reference theories. Similar theories were widely held in the middle of the twentieth century by philosophers such as Peter Strawson and John Sea..."