Referential inscrutability: Coming to terms without it
Southern Journal of Philosophy 22 (2):263-273 (1984)
| Abstract | According to Quine, terms of divided reference like 'rabbit' have two sorts of problems: problems of direct and deferred ostension. Hence the reference of these terms is inscrutable. This article holds that the problems of deferred ostension can be handled by Goodman's theory of projection, and that the problems of direct ostension turn out to be pedestrian problems of signs. | |||||||||
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