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  • curprev 23:4523:45, 8 February 2023Bacchus talk contribs 1,065 bytes +1,065 Created page with "A '''causal theory of reference''' or '''historical chain theory of reference''' is a philisophical theory of how terms acquire specific referents based on evidence. Such theories have been used to describe many referring terms, particularly logical terms, proper names, and natural kind terms. In the case of names, for example, a causal theory of reference typically involves the following claims: • a name's referent is fixed by an original act of naming, whereupon..."