note that “un-referenceable objective reality” is a reference!).
Says who? It’s a piece of ostensibly interpretable English. Does that make it a reference? .Fine then it’s a reference and there is no paradox. Or does a reference have to latch on to some definite bunch of atoms, somessubset of physical reality? (Ie not be a “dangling pointer”) Then it isn’t a reference,and there is still no problem.
If you try to have it both ways, by insisting that any comprehensible English noun phrase must be a reference (even talk of unicorns or noumena),whilst simultaneously insisting that a reference must be defined narrowly as non dangling pointer that latches on to a physical object,then you have created a paradox. A paradox you didn’t have to create.
This was solved over a century by Frege. There’s Sense and there’s Reference. Even if you grasp the sense,its up to the universe to decide whether an appropriate referent exists.
Says who? It’s a piece of ostensibly interpretable English. Does that make it a reference? .Fine then it’s a reference and there is no paradox. Or does a reference have to latch on to some definite bunch of atoms, somessubset of physical reality? (Ie not be a “dangling pointer”) Then it isn’t a reference,and there is still no problem.
If you try to have it both ways, by insisting that any comprehensible English noun phrase must be a reference (even talk of unicorns or noumena),whilst simultaneously insisting that a reference must be defined narrowly as non dangling pointer that latches on to a physical object,then you have created a paradox. A paradox you didn’t have to create.
This was solved over a century by Frege. There’s Sense and there’s Reference. Even if you grasp the sense,its up to the universe to decide whether an appropriate referent exists.
I can follow your argument, but could you clarify what you mean by Sense and Reference?
It’s not something I invented,it’s the foundation stone of the Analytical philosophy project.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense_and_reference
PS having taken a look at the wiki article,it’s crap...or I have a different take on the subject.