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    It is not the case that Kripke's Wittgenstein establishes that what counts as 'correct' naming is sustained by communal agreement, not by objective natures independent of social practice.

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    • 1.Communities can be systematically mistaken about naming conventions; false consensus doesn't make incorrect references correct.
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    • 2.Certain natural kind terms (gold, water) refer to objective molecular structures independent of what any community believes or agrees.
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    • 3.If correctness derives only from agreement, it becomes circular: communities agree on what counts as correct agreement about correctness.
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    • 1.Language acquisition shows children learn naming through social correction, not ostensive reference to intrinsic essences.
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    • 2.The same physical object is named differently across cultures, suggesting names track social conventions rather than objective natures.
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    • 3.Without communal agreement on usage rules, an individual's private naming rules become meaningless and semantically inert.
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