A relation that holds necessarily across all possible worlds—connecting a name to its bearer regardless of counterfactual circumstance—cannot be merely linguistic, since linguistic conventions are contingent.

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Necessarily: "Necessarily" means something must be true in all possible situations—it's not just true right now, but couldn't be false under any circumstances. For example, "2+2=4 necessarily" means there's no possible way 2+2 could equal anything other than 4. This contrasts with "contingently" true facts, like "it's raining today," which happen to be true but could have been false.
bearer(as used in metaphysics): The thing that has or carries a property. For example, a rose is the bearer of the property 'redness.'
contingent(De Interpretatione 12–13): Equated with 'possible'; on the two-sided interpretation, contingency excludes necessity (possibility implies non-necessity).
counterfactual(Modal logic and epistemology): A conditional statement concerning what would be the case if some antecedent condition were true, evaluated across possible worlds; contraposition does not hold in general for counterfactuals.

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