Against causal descriptivism

Mind and Society 5 (1):78-84 (2006)
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Causal descriptivism and its relative nominal descriptivism are critically examined. It is argued that they do not manage to undermine the principal conclusions of the new theory of reference

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10.1007/s11299-006-0010-6

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