E.E. Constance Jones argued that the proposition expressed by 'Scott is the author of Waverley' is genuinely informative, which requires that 'Scott' and 'the author of Waverley' differ in cognitive meaning despite co-referring.
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Waverley(as the title used in the philosophical example)
A famous novel published in 1814 by Sir Walter Scott, used here as an example to discuss how language and meaning work.
co-referring(in philosophy of language)
When two different words or phrases point to the exact same thing in the world—for example, 'the author of Romeo and Juliet' and 'Shakespeare' both refer to the same person.
proposition(Used in the context of a semantic theory sensitive to differences in subject matter.)
The content expressed by a sentence, individuated at least in part by the subject matter of the sentence and the contents of its subsentential expressions.