Meanings
adjectivenonreferring (not comparable)
- not comparableNot referring.
In particular, Frege held as a special case of the Compositionality of Reference that a compound expression having a nonreferring part (as for example, 'the wife of the present king of France') must itself be nonreferring.
2003, Dov M. Gabbay, Franz Guenthner, Handbook of Philosophical Logic, volume 10, page 67
Origin
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