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    Sally's thoughts are determinately about Bill and not Bil... — Carmelics
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    Sally's thoughts are determinately about Bill and not Bill*, even though Sally cannot demonstratively identify Bill as an extra-mental individual

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    • 1.Sally can demonstratively identify her sense data caused by Bill and not by Bill*
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    We end this section by briefly comparing Strawson's view with Russell's and the contemporary neo-Russellian's views. We have seen that, for Russell, like Strawson, demonstrative identification plays a crucial role, in the form of acquaintance. But unlike Strawson, Russell denies that we demonstratively identify extra-mental individuals. Russell can deliver the intuitively correct results that Sally's thoughts are determinately about Bill and not Bill*, even though she is not, on Russell's view,
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