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    The sense of a proper name is objective, not merely subjective like an idea, yet is distinct from the reference (the object itself)

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    • 1.The reference of a proper name is the object itself
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    • 2.The idea associated with a proper name is wholly subjective
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    • 3.The optical image in a telescope is one-sided and standpoint-dependent, yet is objective insofar as multiple observers can use it simultaneously
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    • 1.The identity of a sense across speakers requires a criterion of sameness that Frege never successfully provided.
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    • 2.Without such a criterion, 'shareable sense' collapses into a family of subjective ideas that merely resemble one another.
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    • 3.Therefore the telescope analogy fails: what appears intermediate between idea and reference may simply be a privileged idea lacking genuine objectivity.
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    • 1.Kripke's modal arguments show that proper names are rigid designators tracking objects across possible worlds without descriptive sense.
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    • 2.If competent speakers can refer to Aristotle while associating wildly divergent descriptions, no stable Fregean sense is doing the referential work.
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    • 3.The explanatory role Frege assigns to sense — mediating reference and grounding cognitive significance — is better discharged by causal-historical chains than by abstract intermediaries.
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    The reference of a proper name is the object itself which we designate by its means; the idea, which we have in that case, is wholly subjective; in between lies the sense, which is indeed no longer subjective like the idea, but is yet not the object itself. The following analogy will perhaps clarify these relationships. Somebody observes the Moon through a telescope. I compare the Moon itself to the reference; it is the object of the observation, mediated by the real image projected by the objec
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