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    Frege's puzzle about cognitive significance shows that co... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The beliefs of the speaker are irrelevant to the day an utterance of 'today' is about.

    Frege's puzzle about cognitive significance shows that coreferential terms can differ in meaning based on the epistemic states of speakers.

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    • 1.Speakers can rationally believe 'Hesperus is Phosphorus' is informative, which requires different cognitive contents despite identical referents.
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    • 2.Meaning determines reference, so if reference alone determined meaning, Frege's informativeness puzzle would be unsolvable.
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    • 3.Epistemic modes of presentation (how we know about objects) are psychologically real and shape how speakers understand coreferential terms.
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    • 1.Cognitive significance may reflect metalinguistic beliefs about terms rather than differences in the terms' actual meanings themselves.
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    • 2.Meaning can be purely referential while informativeness arises from asymmetric speaker knowledge, without requiring meaning to vary with epistemic states.
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    • 3.Appealing to epistemic states makes meaning subjective and speaker-relative, conflicting with meaning's role in objective semantic truth conditions.
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