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    It is not the case that 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 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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    • 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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