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    "pk": 28118,
    "title": "Experimentally Testing the Intuitions about Semantic Reference",
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    "abstract": "The debate about semantic reference between Frege’s (1948)\ndescriptivism and Kripke’s (1972) causal theory of reference\nhas recently been approached through experimental\npsychology. However, no consensus has been reached on the\ndirection of the results. While some studies face clear\nmethodological charges, even those that are currently\nuncontested do not reach a mutual conclusion. We propose a\nnovel experimental paradigm with methodology designed to\nevade the problems of previous studies. Contrary to the past\nliterature, we find a prevalence of descriptivists under lenient\ncriteria for consistency across trials, while under strict criteria\nwe find an equal amount of descriptivists and hybrids, with\nlow numbers of referentialists (causal theory of reference)\nunder both criteria. We suggest an interpretation of this result,\nand where future research might head.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "proper names; descriptivist theory; causal theory\nof reference; semantic reference"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Publication-based-Talks",
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    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Ana",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Puljic",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Edinburgh",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Leonidas",
            "middle_name": "A.A.",
            "last_name": "Doumas",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Edinburgh",
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        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2018-01-01T10:00:00-08:00",
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