The reference book [electronic resource] / John Hawthorne and David Manley. Hawthorne, John (John P.) Manley, David (David Jeffrey) Reference (Philosophy) Reference (Linguistics) B105.R25 H39 2012 121.68 23 Includes bibliographical references. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 15, 2012). How do language and thought connect to things in the world? John Hawthorne and David Manley offer an original and ambitious treatment of the semantic phenomenon of reference and the cognitive phenomenon of singular thought, leading to a new unified account of definite and indefinite descriptions, names and demonstratives. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012. 2012. 2012 Text 1 online resource. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199693672.001.0001 eng