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    Challenges→If two speakers associate different common notions with 'Virgil'—one 'poet', another 'farmer'—the claim that both notions constitute genuine semantic sense leads to referential instability the theory cannot resolve.

    Reference can succeed via external causal chains to objects independent of internal senses; divergent senses don't prevent speakers from fixing the same referent.

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