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Individuals one cannot perceive must be identified descri... — Carmelics

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Individuals one cannot perceive must be identified descriptively rather than demonstratively

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1.One can demonstratively identify only individuals that one has perceived
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2.One can think about individuals beyond those one has perceived
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1.Mental files and memory traces preserve de re singular reference to individuals after perceptual contact has ceased.
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2.Reidentification of a previously perceived individual across time relies on causal-historical chains, not descriptive content.
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3.Therefore, descriptive identification is neither necessary nor sufficient to account for all reference beyond current perception.
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1.Kripke's causal-historical theory holds that names refer via chains of use back to an initial baptism, bypassing descriptive mediation entirely.
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2.A speaker can successfully refer to Napoleon using the name 'Napoleon' without possessing any uniquely identifying description of him.
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Peter Strawson's reduplication argument, developed in (1959, 20–22), can be construed as an argument for singular propositions. Strawson used the argument to support the related thesis that demonstrative identification is fundamental to our ability to identify and hence refer to, in speech and thought, individuals. Demonstrative identification of o is enabled by one sensibly discriminating o from other individuals. So one can demonstratively identify only individuals that one has perceived. But

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