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What does referential mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of a word or phrase applied to a particular person, place, or thing and not to any other.
  2. Serving as a reference.
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Even the earlier buildings are referential, trying to create meaning in this New World by referring to an imaginary old one.
To have allowed the actual, the almost-representational and the referential, into his frames is already a considerable move for Shreshtha.
His fiction is characterized by a densely referential and ironic style and by a preoccupation with the act of writing itself.
These notes, where not referential, would have lightened a text that is certainly not for the feeble-minded.
The everyday is dilated and takes on further meaning, both abstract and referential.
The claim, of course, was that referential uses of a description are a function of pragmatics, not quantifier scope.

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