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"""The Autonomy of Reference is an informed and thought-provoking investigation on the epistemological status of the claim that proper names and other nominals are semantically related to the world, i.e., that they refer to someone or something. On the one hand, it challenges (Chomskyan) internalists about the dispensability of the concept of (semantic) reference within theoretical linguistics. On the other hand, it argues against externalists that the concept resists systematic treatment. Zolt�n Vecsey's original way out of the problem appeals to the technique of reverse explanation. Whatever one may think about the issue, I am certain that any scholar looking at language from a naturalistic perspective will find this a useful read."" --Andrea Bianchi, University of Parma"

""The Autonomy of Reference is an informed and thought-provoking investigation on the epistemological status of the claim that proper names and other nominals are semantically related to the world, i.e., that they refer to someone or something. On the one hand, it challenges (Chomskyan) internalists about the dispensability of the concept of (semantic) reference within theoretical linguistics. On the other hand, it argues against externalists that the concept resists systematic treatment. Zoltán Vecsey's original way out of the problem appeals to the technique of reverse explanation. Whatever one may think about the issue, I am certain that any scholar looking at language from a naturalistic perspective will find this a useful read."" --Andrea Bianchi, University of Parma

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Zoltán Vecsey research fellow at the MTA-SZTE-DE Research Group for Theoretical Linguistics and Informatics.

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