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direct reference theory

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theory of language that claims that the meaning of a word or expression lies in what it points out in the world

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analytic philosophy

philosophy of language

Wilfrid Sellars

Ruth Barcan Marcus

descriptivist theory of names

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Bertrand Russell

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Meaning (philosophy of language)Theories of language

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