A Fregean can adopt Kripke's causal-historical insights by construing senses as objective, socially-determined modes of presentation not exhausted by any speaker's associated description.

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Description (in philosophical context)(as used in philosophy of language): A set of facts or properties we use to identify or understand something—for example, describing gold as 'a yellow, shiny metal.'
Fregean: "Fregean" refers to ideas or methods based on the work of Gottlob Frege, a German logician and philosopher from the late 1800s who is considered one of the founders of modern logic. Frege developed revolutionary ways of analyzing language and meaning, particularly the idea that words and sentences have both a sense (the way they present something) and a reference (what they actually point to in the world). His work fundamentally changed how philosophers and mathematicians think about logic, language, and the nature of truth.
Kripke's causal-historical insights(as a theory of meaning): The theory by philosopher Saul Kripke that names and words get their meaning through a chain of historical causes and conversations, not just by describing what something is like.
Socially-determined(as used in philosophy of language)

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