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(1983) The origins of meaning, Dordrecht, Springer.
Both the suggestion that the analysis of meaning and reference can be carried out apart from a study of the communicative features of language and the suggestion that the proper context for such an analysis is the monologue, underline the rejection of a recurring motif in much of the current literature on reference. Signs do not refer. For logistic phenomenology expressions and sentences refer only because acts refer. The turn to the monologue has the result of not identifying the analysis of meaning with a study of the use of expressions. The correlations between expression (or a string of expressions) and object is viewed as essentially founded upon a correlation between act, meaning and reference.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-6778-6_3
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Welton, D. (1983). Meaning and nominal acts, in The origins of meaning, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 49-89.
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