Context-sensitive reference fixing and objectivity. Reply to Barceló

Manuscrito 43 (4):13-21 (2020)
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Axel Barceló has extended the objectivist apparatus for handling color terms that I develop in my book Roads to Reference, so that the extension covers also some aesthetic predicates. In this note I argue that Barceló’s extension probably attempts to go too far.

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Mario Gomez-Torrente
National Autonomous University of Mexico

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