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    If senses are individuated by cognitive significance rath... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Fregeans should deny Fregean descriptivism — that is, they should deny that the senses of proper names are the senses of any definite description associated with those names by speakers.

    If senses are individuated by cognitive significance rather than descriptive content, Kripke's counterexamples—which target descriptive content—leave the core Fregean framework intact.

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    Cognitive significance(The standard being used to judge whether Collingwood's theory is legitimate)
    The quality of having meaningful content that tells us something real about the world or our thinking—basically, whether a statement actually *means* something.
    Fregean framework(The statement examines whether Kripke's arguments actually damage this foundational theory)
    Frege's overall theoretical system for explaining how language and thought work, built on the idea that words have both a sense (how we think about them) and a reference (what they point to).
    Gottlob Frege(historical philosopher)
    A late 19th and early 20th-century German philosopher and logician who made fundamental contributions to understanding how language and meaning work.
    Saul Kripke(in 20th-century philosophy)
    An influential modern philosopher who developed new ways of thinking about meaning, necessity, and possibility by using the idea of 'possible worlds.'

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    Sense (in philosophy of language)(what the statement says would need to be individuated (separated))
    The meaning or concept of a word or phrase—what it *means* rather than just what it *refers to*. For example, 'the morning star' and 'the evening star' refer to the same thing (Venus) but have different senses.
    counterexample([IHT] arg. 2)
    A possible obligational situation (casus possibilis positus) that verifies the antecedent and falsifies the consequent of an inference
    descriptive content(Putnam's characterization, contrasted with causal theories of reference)
    At its simplest, 'what is in one's head'
    individuated by(in metaphysics and philosophy of identity)
    The criteria or features that make something distinct and separate from other things; what makes it 'this one' rather than 'that one.'

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