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- noun Plural form of
referent .
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Examples
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According to Mill, while proper names denote their referents, which is to say that their meanings are nothing but those referents, natural kind terms, along with general terms more broadly, connote their referents or extensions.
Natural Kinds Bird, Alexander 2008
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It is important to recognize that, in calling the referents of the defined terms “quantities,” Newton is assigning them to the ontological category of quantity in Aristotle's sense.
Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica Smith, George 2007
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The reference relation between natural kind (magnitude, etc.) terms and their referents is a purely causal matter, where the purity in question is a matter of the reference relation's being definable without significantly acknowledging descriptive elements or human intentions.
Scientific Realism Boyd, Richard 2002
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This is the first step toward obliterating discriminatory homosocial/homosexual referents.
G. Roger Denson: Women's Art of Renewal: Carrie Mae Weems, Vanessa Beecroft, Sharon Lockhart, Catherine Opie and Lisa Yuskavage G. Roger Denson 2011
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This is the first step toward obliterating discriminatory homosocial/homosexual referents.
G. Roger Denson: Women's Art of Renewal: Carrie Mae Weems, Vanessa Beecroft, Sharon Lockhart, Catherine Opie and Lisa Yuskavage G. Roger Denson 2011
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Geoff DobsonLondon• Blatter: n ignorant and arrogant; v (to be) ignorant and arrogantHoward BurrellStevenage, Hertfordshire • Your critic Brian Logan (At Last, The 1981 Show, Review, 31 May) reared, as he states, on The Young Ones and Saturday Live, needs to widen his cultural referents.
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I detect no interest in matching words with their referents -- that is, semantics.
Robin Lakoff: The Semantics Of "Submission" Robin Lakoff 2011
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This is the first step toward obliterating discriminatory homosocial/homosexual referents.
G. Roger Denson: Women's Art of Renewal: Carrie Mae Weems, Vanessa Beecroft, Sharon Lockhart, Catherine Opie and Lisa Yuskavage G. Roger Denson 2011
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I detect no interest in matching words with their referents -- that is, semantics.
Robin Lakoff: The Semantics Of "Submission" Robin Lakoff 2011
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I detect no interest in matching words with their referents -- that is, semantics.
Robin Lakoff: The Semantics Of "Submission" Robin Lakoff 2011
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