出版社:Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
摘要:Speaker's reference is an intentional act directed,via an expression,at an object - an intentional object. The author of the paper tries to find an answer to the following question: What does a speaker refer to when he does not know what a description or a proper name used refers to? He argues that,i f the speaker uses such a description,his reference is not directed at the referent of the description but at its meaning. If the speaker uses a proper name whose meaning is not known to him. he can refer neither to the referent nor to the meaning of that name.