A presuppositional account of reference fixing

Journal of Philosophy 97 (3):109-147 (2000)
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Abstract

The paper defends a version of Direct Reference for indexicals on which reference-fixing material (token-reflexive conditions) plays the role of an ancillary presupposition

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