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    Challenges→The view that expressions have meanings which determine extensions implausibly treats 'line' and 'door' as homophonous expressions.

    Standard homophony (e.g., 'bank' for financial institution vs. riverbank) involves no such sense of sameness across uses.

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    The defender of the view that expressions have meanings which determine extensions seems forced to say that “line” and “door” are homophonous expressions, like “bank”. But that seems implausible; when one uses the expressions “fishing line” and “line of thought” one seems to be using “line” in recognizably the same sense. (This is a point of contrast with standard examples of homophony, as when uses “bank” once to refer to a financial institution and then later to refer to the side of a river.)

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