| The formalist variant of instrumentalism denies theoretical terms to have referents at all. |
| At that point, researchers cross the Rubicon from definitions with precise physical referents to theoretical constructs open to multiple interpretations. |
| Many of our other examples of indirect pronominal anaphors whose referents were not in focus also seem to involve a script. |
| They draw attention to contingent referents, the signifiers and the sign-systems that position subjects as such. |
| It is possible but not demonstrable that the Scandinavians also coined primary habitative names whose referents were settlements established in valleys. |
| Language determines how we view the world, but not in the sense that there's an unproblematic correspondence between social and political concepts and their referents. |
