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nonreferring

nonreferring adjective: not referring.

Adjective

nonreferring (not comparable)

  1. Not referring.
    • In particular, Frege held as a special case of the Compositionality of Reference that a compound expression having a nonreferring part (as for example, 'the wife of the present king of France') must itself be nonreferring.2003, Dov M. Gabbay, Franz Guenthner, Handbook of Philosophical Logic, volume 10, page 67

Origin of nonreferring

From non- + referring.

Questions about nonreferring

What does nonreferring mean?
Nonreferring means not referring.
What part of speech is nonreferring?
Nonreferring is an adjective.

Words near nonreferring in the dictionary

  1. nonreferential
  2. nonreferentiality
  3. nonreferentially
  4. nonreferents
  5. nonreferral
  6. nonreferring
  7. nonrefillable
  8. nonrefinable
  9. nonreflecting
  10. nonreflective
  11. nonreflector

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