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    It is not the case that A complete theory of how expressions contribute to truth-conditions must account for cognitive significance, which reference alone systematically fails to capture.

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    • 1.Cognitive significance reflects speaker psychology and conceptual competence, not semantic content that determines truth-conditions.
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    • 2.A theory of truth-conditions can remain complete by explaining reference and composition; cognitive significance is a separate explanatory domain.
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    • 3.Indexicals like 'I' and 'now' show reference alone suffices for truth-conditions despite variable cognitive significance across speakers.
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    • 1.Frege's puzzle shows 'Morning Star' and 'Evening Star' have identical reference but different cognitive significance for competent speakers.
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    • 2.Two expressions can fix the same referent via different modes of presentation, which truth-conditions alone cannot distinguish.
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    • 3.A complete theory must explain why 'Water is H2O' is informative while 'Water is water' is trivial, despite identical reference.
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