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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
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philosophy of language
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proposition
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John Searle
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possible world
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Wilfrid Sellars
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Ruth Barcan Marcus
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descriptivist theory of names
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language
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Aristotle
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philosophy
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Confucius
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Plato
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linguistics
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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Noam Chomsky
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Bertrand Russell
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
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International Standard Book Number
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Ibn Khaldun
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