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    It is not the case that Statements that appear to be about Pegasus or Holmes are best analyzed as predications on concepts or descriptions, not on objects themselves.

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    • 1.We distinguish 'Pegasus is winged' from 'Pegasus is not winged'—a logical difference requiring something determinate to ground it, not just concepts.
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    • 2.Treating statements as predications on descriptions makes 'Sherlock Holmes lived in Victorian London' ambiguous in truth value—problematic for clear semantics.
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    • 3.Our discourse treats fictional names as genuinely singular terms; reducing them to descriptions dissolves this linguistic and intentional structure artificially.
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    • 1.Pegasus and Holmes don't exist, so statements about them can't refer to objects; they must refer to conceptual content instead.
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    • 2.This analysis explains how 'Pegasus is a winged horse' is meaningful despite Pegasus's non-existence without positing non-existent objects.
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    • 3.Descriptions capture what we actually understand: not a thing, but a cluster of properties like 'mythical winged horse' or 'detective with keen logic'.
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