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    It is not the case that Naming is an objective science, not a matter of subjective preference

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    • 1.Wittgenstein's rule-following considerations show that no fact about an object determines a unique correct application of a name across all cases.
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    • 2.If the analogy to craftsmanship fails because naming lacks any finite set of correctness conditions analogous to a clean cut, the craft model of naming collapses.
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    • 3.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.Saussure's structural linguistics demonstrates that the sign-signified relation is arbitrary, grounded in differential contrast within a system rather than natural fit.
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    • 2.If meaning is constituted by relations between signs rather than correspondence to objective natures, there is no pre-linguistic 'nature' for naming to track.
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    • 1.Things have objective natures independent of how they appear to us
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    • 2.There are objectively determined skills for dealing with things based on their objective natures
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    • 3.Just as the right way to cut something is determined by the thing's objective nature, so too naming is governed by objective natures
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