On behavioral theories of reference

Philosophy of Science 46 (2):175-203 (1979)
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Efforts to bare the psychonomic nature of the semantic reference (representation) relation have been remarkably scanty; in fact, the only contemporary account developed with any care is the one proposed by Osgood. However, not even Osgood has looked deeply at the difficulties that beset any attempt to analyze reference in terms of common effects appropriately shared by a symbol and its significate

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Dispositions revisited.William W. Rozeboom - 1973 - Philosophy of Science 40 (1):59-74.
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