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    Challenges→The names 'Superman' and 'Clark Kent' differ in sense despite being coreferential.

    A more parsimonious account holds that 'Superman' and 'Clark Kent' share a single semantic value while pragmatic or psychological factors explain substitution failures.

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    • 1.Ontological parsimony is a virtue: positing one entity rather than two requires less theoretical machinery and fewer assumptions.
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    • 2.Pragmatic factors demonstrably affect substitution: context, salience, and conversational goals shape whether we accept identity statements.
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    • 3.Co-referential names in other domains (e.g., 'Hesperus' and 'Phosphorus') have identical semantic values despite substitution failures.
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    • 1.Pragmatic explanations cannot account for systematic cognitive/logical differences: 'Superman can fly' seems true while 'Clark Kent can fly' seems false.
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    • 2.If semantic values were identical, rational agents with full information should accept substitutions; persistent rejection suggests semantic distinction.
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