Reference through Mental Files : Indexicals and Definite Descriptions

In Carlo Penco & Filippo Domaneschi (eds.), What Is Said and What Is Not. Stanford. pp. 159-173 (2013)
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Accounts for referential communication (and especially communication by means of definite descriptions and indexicals) in the mental file framework.

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