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A '''mediated reference theory'''<ref>Siobhan Chapman (ed.), ''Key Ideas in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language'', Edinburgh University Press, 2009, p. 202.</ref> (also '''indirect reference theory''')<ref name=Berezowski>Leszek Berezowski, ''Articles and Proper Names'', University of Wrocław, 2001, p. 67.</ref> is any [[semantic]] theory that posits that words refer to something in the external world, but insists that there is more to the meaning of a name than simply the object to which it refers. It thus stands opposed to the theory of [[direct reference]]. [[Gottlob Frege]] is a well-known advocate of mediated reference theories.<ref name=Berezowski/><ref>G. W. Fitch, ''Naming and Believing'', Springer, 2012, p. 1.</ref> Similar theories were widely held in the middle of the twentieth century by philosophers such as [[Peter Strawson]] and [[John Searle]].
Mediated reference theories are contrasted with [[Direct reference theory|theories of direct reference]].
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