Chapter 59: Reference and Indexicals

Reference is not a mysterious relation between word and world but an indexical pointing from expression to kernel position. This chapter dissolves Quine’s indeterminacy of translation by showing that the subsymbolic kernel is shared across linguistic communities: what varies is the symbolic label, not the structural position it addresses. Proper names are reinterpreted as rigid NF-addresses in the sense of Kripke, and a Universal Bridgeability proposition establishes that translation succeeds whenever source and target languages point to the same kernel invariant.