Reference and Essence, expanded edition (2nd edition)

Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books (2005)
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This is the second edition of an award-winning 1981 book (Princeton University Press and Basil Blackwell, based on the author’s doctoral dissertation) considered to be a classic in the philosophy of language movement known variously as the New Theory of Reference or the Direct-Reference Theory, as well as in the metaphysics of modal essentialism that is related to this philosophy of language.

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B105.R25.S24 2005

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1591022150   0691072647   0691101280   0631130047   0631130055

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10.2307/2026390

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