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Reference without intentions in large language models
Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 69 (6):2945-2963 (2026)
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1. During the 1960s and 1970s, Keith Donnellan (1966, 1970, 1974) and Saul Kripke ([1972] 1980) developed influential critiques of then-prevailing ‘description theories’ of reference. In place of s...Author's Profile
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Reference and definite descriptions.Keith S. Donnellan - 1966 - Philosophical Review 75 (3):281-304.
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