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The philosophy of intentionality asks questions such as: in virtue of what does a sentence, picture, or mental state represent that the world is a certain way? The subquestion I focus upon here concerns the semantic properties of language: in virtue of what does a name such as 'London' refer to something or a predicate such as 'is large' apply to some object?
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John Williams (2007) studied this question.
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