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What is referential opacity?

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I would like to express my thanks to friends and colleagues at York who read and commented on an earlier draft of this paper, and in particular Mr N. J. H. Dent, Mr I. L. Humberstone, Mr B. S. Marshall and Dr R. S. Woolhouse.

With the permission of the Editor of this Journal a longer version of the paper appeared as a research report inYork Papers in Linguistics (No. 2, 1972, York, England) under the title ‘Referential Opacity and Deep Structure’.

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Bell, J.M. What is referential opacity?. J Philos Logic 2, 155–180 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02115615

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