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    Names are a form of naturalism because they are appropria... — Carmelics
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    Names are a form of naturalism because they are appropriately correlated to the specific natures of the objects they name

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    • 1.Names are purpose-made portions of vocal sound
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    • 2.Names are expertly constructed for their specific function of marking off an item's being
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    • 3.This treatment of names correlates them to the specific natures of the objects they name
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    • 1.Saussure's principle of arbitrariness demonstrates that the sign-signified relation is unmotivated by any intrinsic property of the referent.
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    • 2.Expert construction of a name, as Hermogenes argues, reflects social convention and communal agreement rather than ontological correspondence.
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    • 3.A conventionalist account explains naming success without positing any natural fit between vocal sound and object-nature.
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    • 1.The same object receives different names across languages, yet the object's nature remains constant and singular.
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    • 2.If names were naturally correlated to natures, cross-linguistic naming variation would be impossible without contradiction.
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    Everything down to here is set out in terms of Plato’s own metaphysics, and has all the hallmarks of philosophical seriousness. Names are purpose-made portions of vocal sound, expertly constructed for their specific function of marking off this or that item’s being. This is clearly a form of naturalism, since it treats names as appropriately correlated to the specific natures of the objects they name. But what does that natural correlation amount to?
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