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On Behavioral Theories of Reference

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

William W. Rozeboom
William W. Rozeboom*
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University of Alberta
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Abstract

Efforts to bare the psychonomic nature of the semantic reference (representation) relation have been remarkably scanty; in fact, the only contemporary account developed with any care is the one proposed by Osgood. However, not even Osgood has looked deeply at the difficulties that beset any attempt to analyze reference in terms of common effects appropriately shared by a symbol and its significate.

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Philosophy of Science , Volume 46 , Issue 2 , June 1979, pp. 175 - 203
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Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1979

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