2003
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Frank Lebas et al., « Monter et la constitution extrinsèque du réfèrent », Langages, ID : 10.3406/lgge.2003.912
The french verb monter (engl. to go up/raise/assemble . . .) is analysed in this paper to show that the hypothesis of "transparency" of language is essential to Semantics. While the common "opacity" hypothesis leads to several problematic dualisms and needs artificial construals - such as the "subjectivisation" notion - transparency opens to a theory of reference directly compatible with a phenomenological view of language. In that theory, referred-to objects are themselves constituted by "Extrinsic Properties".