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    Coreferential names can differ in sense — Carmelics
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    Coreferential names can differ in sense

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    • 1.The sense of a name is a condition which the referent uniquely satisfies
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    • 2.Any given object uniquely satisfies more than one condition
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    • 1.Names are rigid designators that directly refer to objects without any descriptive sense mediating the reference (Kripke, Naming and Necessity).
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    • 2.If names lack senses entirely, no two coreferential names can differ in something they do not possess.
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    • 1.The cognitive significance of 'Hesperus is Phosphorus' is fully explained by our ignorance of an empirical identity, not by names encoding distinct descriptive senses.
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    • 2.Frege's puzzle about informative identity statements requires only an epistemic, not a semantic, distinction between coreferential names.
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    But even if this tells us when names differ in sense, it does not quite tell us what the sense of a name is. Here is one initially plausible way of explaining what the sense of a name is. We know that, whatever the content of a name is, it must be something which determines as a reference the object for which the name stands; and we know that, if Fregeanism is true, this must be something other than the object itself. A natural thought, then, is that the content of a name—its sense—is some condi
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