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Derivation reference


judgments referent to the indictment.
Type Words
Type of meaning, significance, import, signification
Has types denotatum, designatum, antecedent
Type Words
Type of term
Type Words
Type of term

Examples of referent

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Unless the actor is primary referent over his uncle, which is at least arguable.
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On Frege's account, any referring expression has a sense as well as a referent.
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Nationalism and patriotism count towards an intangible sort of referent power.
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Many organizations have clearly defined values that relate to key referent groups.
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Words can often be meaningful without having a concrete here-and-now referent.
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The referent of the description among angels is some immaterial, non-physical state.
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In fact, cultural relativists can be just another form of a referent group.
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In Jung's view, a sign stands for something known, as a word stands for its referent.
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The coindexing also shows that X cannot point to a different referent.
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More examples
  • Something referred to; the object of a reference
  • The first term in a proposition; the term to which other terms relate
  • Something that refers; a term that refers to another term
  • The specific entity in the world that a word or phrase identifies or denotes; That which is referenced
  • (referents) The persons, systems, or selves against which individuals compare themselves to assess equity.
  • Whatever a reference refers to, which may or may not have a name. Common types of referents include scalars, arrays, hashes, and subroutines.
  • A particular object identified by a specific DOI name.
  • Synonym: signified, object, interpretant.
  • The entity or concept that an RDF Resource describes. [RDFM&S]