nonreferring

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

non- +‎ referring

Adjective[edit]

nonreferring (not comparable)

  1. Not referring.
    • 2003, Dov M. Gabbay, Franz Guenthner, Handbook of Philosophical Logic, volume 10, page 67:
      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.
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