1) Denotatum 2) Designatum
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1) Having reference 2) Import 3) Meaning 4) Significance 5) Signification 6) Something alluded to 7) Something referred to 8) Something that refers 9) The object of a reference
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- 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
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In semantics, a referent is a person or thing to which a linguistic expression refers, a discursive entity, the subject of speech. ==Potential ambiguity== The term referent may sometimes be ambiguous in that it can mean the thing that refers, or the thing which is referred to. In most fields, however, it usually has the second meaning – the thin...
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(from the article `rapporteur`) In Germany the Referent in the Reichskammergericht, the supreme court of the Holy Roman Empire, had similar responsibilities. He analyzed evidence ...
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A referent is the word to which another word in a sentence or text refers. It is an important element of textual cohesion. For example, a pronoun must have a referent noun which is already understood (this noun is called the pronoun's antecedent) or its meaning will be unclear or ambiguous. Referents can be exophoric (when the referent is outside ...
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n] - something referred to 2. [n] - the first term in a proposition 3. [n] - something that refers
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adjective having reference; `judgments referent to the indictment`
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The object towards which an act of reference is directed. See Referend. -- L.W. (1) That which is denoted by a word, sentence, utterance or judgment. (2) A term used by adherents of a certain causal theory of meaning. That event to which a symbol is actually used to refer. More explicitly: -- Let 'context' be used to mean a set of events such that....
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