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Speaker Reference

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What is Said

Part of the book series: Philosophical Studies Series ((PSSP,volume 49))

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Having attempted to demonstrate that a number of other approaches are unsatisfactory, I turn now to the development of a theory of speaker reference which gives primacy to the intentions of the speaker. After some preliminary remarks, I shall start with two views of this sort that seem to me inadequate. My own approach is detailed in section 2, and the remainder of the chapter is a defense of that approach.

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Notes

  1. See H. P. Grice, “Utterer’s Meaning and Intentions”.

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  2. Grice, “Utterer’s Meaning”, p. 151.

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  3. Grice, “Utterer’s Meaning” p. 154.

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  4. Grice, “Utterer’s Meaning” p. 155.

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  5. “Speaker Reference”, presented to the Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association, December 1983.

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  6. David Kaplan, “Dthat”.

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  7. “Dthat”, pp. 396–97.

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  8. “Dthat”, p. 396.

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  9. Wettstein, “How to Bridge the Gap”, p. 68.

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  10. Biro, “Intention, Demonstration, and Reference”, p. 38.

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  11. Ibid.

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  12. Ibid., pp. 38–39.

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  13. Kaplan, “Dthat”, p. 389.

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  14. Marcia Yudkin & Janice M. Moulton, Guidebook for Publishing Philosophy, 1986 ed., p. 171.

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  15. Charles Chastain, “Reference and Context”, pp. 194–269.

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  16. Chastain, “Reference”, pp. 212–13.

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  17. Donnellan, “Speaker Reference”, p. 43.

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  18. Chastain, “Reference”, p. 208.

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  19. Donnellan, “Speaker Reference”, p. 37.

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  20. Donnellan, Ibid., p. 36 (emphasis added).

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  21. Donnellan, Ibid., p. 38.

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  22. Donnellan, “Speaker Reference”, p. 38.

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  1. Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA

    Rod Bertolet

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Bertolet, R. (1990). Speaker Reference. In: What is Said. Philosophical Studies Series, vol 49. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2061-3_5

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