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  1. Roles for Event Representations in Sensorimotor Experience, Memory Formation, and Language Processing.Alistair Knott & Martin Takac - 2021 - Topics in Cognitive Science 13 (1):187-205.
    Topics in Cognitive Science, Volume 13, Issue 1, Page 187-205, January 2021.
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  • Names, Descriptions, and Assertion.Ray Buchanan - 2014 - In Zsu-Wei Hung (ed.), Communicative Action. Springer. pp. 03-15.
    According to Millian Descriptivism, while the semantic content of a linguistically simple proper name is just its referent, we often use sentences containing such expressions “to make assertions…that are, in part, descriptive” (Soames 2008). Against this view, I show, following Ted Sider and David Braun (2006), that simple sentences containing names are never used to assert descriptively enriched propositions. In addition, I offer a diagnosis as to where the argument for Millian Descriptivism goes wrong. Once we appreciate the distinctive way (...)
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