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    It is not the case that Names are rigid designators that directly refer to objects without the mediation of descriptive senses (Kripke, Naming and Necessity).

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    • 1.Names lack intrinsic semantic content; their referents depend on causal-historical chains that presuppose prior descriptive identification.
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    • 2.Proper name acquisition requires understanding the object *as* something (under some identifying description), contradicting purely direct reference.
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    • 3.Kripke's account underdetermines reference: identical causal chains could yield different referents without descriptive constraints.
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    • 1.Names can refer to objects even when associated descriptions are false (e.g., 'Aristotle' refers despite false biographical claims).
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    • 2.We can intelligibly ask 'Is the person satisfying description D actually named N?' only if the name doesn't reduce to that description.
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    • 3.Cross-possible-world identity of referents requires names to operate independently of contingent descriptive content.
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