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    It is not the case that 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 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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    • 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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