Referent vs Designatum - What's the difference?
referent | designatum | Synonyms |
(semantics) The specific entity in the world that a word or phrase identifies or denotes.
That which is referenced.
(semantics) That which is named or designated by a linguistic term.
* 2007 , Ilhan Inan, "Rigid general terms and essential predicates," Philosophical Studies , vol. 140, no. 2, p. 225:
Designatum is a synonym of referent.
In semantics terms the difference between referent and designatum
is that referent is the specific entity in the world that a word or phrase identifies or denotes while designatum is that which is named or designated by a linguistic term.referent
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(wikipedia referent)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* absent referentAnagrams
* * ----designatum
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Noun
(designata)- I am inclined to hold that if there is a plurality of objects that fall under the designatum of a term, then that should be sufficient (though not necessary) to conclude that that is a general term, even when it has a singular occurrence in a sentence.