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During the eleven years between 1969 and 1980 I had countless conversations on the topics of reference with Gareth Evans; always I was provoked, stimulated, corrected, and enlightened by them; he considerably influenced my thinking about reference. His tragic death, at the age of 34, on August 10, 1980, deprived me of a dear friend, and philosophy of one of its best.

Brian Loar has most influenced my thoughts on the topics of this paper. In fact, for years my thoughts on these matters have been so intertwined with his that it is in some instances difficult for me to say exactly which strands belong to whom. Another unrelenting physicalist colleague, Hartry Field, has, through his writings and in numerous conversations, also much affected my ideas on reference. I should also like to record my gratitude to Keith Donnellan, Paul Grice, R. M. Harnish, George Myro, Christopher Peacocke, and Richard Warner for beneficial discussion on the topics of this paper.

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Schiffer, S. Indexicals and the theory of reference. Synthese 49, 43–100 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01063915

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