- Descriptively determined(contrasted with how <God>'s reference actually works)
- Figured out by listing qualities or characteristics—like identifying someone by saying 'the tallest person in the room' rather than using their name.
- Grammatical facade(describing the gap between how <God> looks grammatically and what it actually is logically)
- A way that language is structured that creates a misleading surface appearance, hiding a different logical reality underneath.
- Logically singular representation(what <God> actually is beneath its grammatical appearance)
- At the deepest level of meaning, a way of referring to one specific, unique thing (rather than a general category).
- Rational theology(Leibniz-Wolffian special metaphysics)
- The branch of Leibniz-Wolffian special metaphysics dealing with God.
- Stipulated(as used in logic and reasoning)
- Assumed or agreed upon for the sake of argument, without needing to prove it first.
- generality(The statement suggests the claim doesn't work as broadly as it seems to.)
- The quality of applying broadly or widely to many cases; when something is general, it works across different situations rather than just one specific case.
- reference(Distinguished from intension in the context of possible worlds semantics)
- The actual-world referent of an expression; what the expression picks out in the actual world.
- singular term(Central to the criterion of ontological commitment)
- A term in a sentence that purports to refer to a specific individual object, the literal truth of whose containing sentence generates ontological commitment to that object.