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Categories: Theories of language, Meaning (philosophy of language), Analytic philosophy, Semantics (linguistics), Semantics
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descriptivist theory of names  description theory of proper names  descriptive theory of names  Descriptive theory of reference  descriptivism
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In the philosophy of language, the descriptivist theory of proper names is the view that the meaning or semantic content of a proper name is identical to the descriptions associated with it by speakers, while their referents are determined to be the objects that satisfy these descriptions. Wikipedia
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In the philosophy of language, the descriptivist theory of proper names is the view that the meaning or semantic content of a proper name is identical to the descriptions associated with it by speakers, while their referents are determined to be the objects that satisfy these descriptions. Wikipedia
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descriptive linguistics
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description theory of proper names, descriptive theory of names, Descriptive theory of reference, descriptivist theory of reference
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