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Demonstratively identified individuals are directly referred to, not identified in virtue of qualities the agent uses to conceive the object

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1.Demonstrative identification picks out individuals through perceptual discrimination, not through descriptive qualities
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2.Descriptive identification picks out individuals in virtue of the agent's conception of the object via satisfying qualities
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1.Demonstrative reference requires a backing description to fix which object is demonstrated, as Searle argues in 'Intentionality' (1983).
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2.If no descriptive content guides 'this,' reference fails when multiple objects fall within the perceptual field equally.
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1.Kaplan's own framework requires a context supplying a agent, time, and location, which constitutes a form of qualitative individuation.
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2.The character of a demonstrative is a rule that maps contextual qualitative features to referents, making description-independence illusory.
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Peter Strawson's reduplication argument, developed in (1959, 20–22), can be construed as an argument for singular propositions. Strawson used the argument to support the related thesis that demonstrative identification is fundamental to our ability to identify and hence refer to, in speech and thought, individuals. Demonstrative identification of o is enabled by one sensibly discriminating o from other individuals. So one can demonstratively identify only individuals that one has perceived. But

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Perspectives: 3 (1 for, 2 against)
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