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    Challenges→The relation between a proper name and its referent is merely linguistic.

    E.E.C. Jones herself argued that identity propositions like 'Tully is Cicero' are cognitively significant precisely because the name-referent relation involves a logical distinction between sense and reference.

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    Cognitively significant(as a property of identity propositions)
    Meaningful in a way that actually gives us information or makes us think, rather than being empty or obvious.
    E.E.C. Jones(as the philosopher being cited)
    A 20th-century British philosopher who wrote about language and meaning, particularly about how names work and what makes statements meaningful.
    Identity propositions(as the type of statement being analyzed)
    Statements that claim two things are the same thing, like 'Superman is Clark Kent' or 'Tully is Cicero'.
    name-referent relation(as used in philosophy of language)
    The connection between a word (like a name) and the actual thing it points to in the world; basically, how names get their meaning by referring to specific objects or people.
    sense and reference

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    (as Frege's key distinction about how words have meaning)
    Two different aspects of meaning: the 'reference' is what a word points to in the real world (like how 'the Morning Star' refers to Venus), while the 'sense' is the specific way or description we use to think about that thing (how we conceive of it).

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