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    The Sinn of 'Hesperus' differs from the Sinn of 'Phosphorus' — Carmelics
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    The Sinn of 'Hesperus' differs from the Sinn of 'Phosphorus'

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    • 1.Two names can present the same Bedeutung in different ways
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    • 2.'Hesperus' presents Venus as the evening star while 'Phosphorus' presents Venus as the morning star
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    • 1.Names are rigid designators that contribute only their referent to semantic content, not descriptive modes of presentation (Kripke, Naming and Necessity).
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    • 2.If names lack descriptive content, 'Hesperus' and 'Phosphorus' have identical semantic values, making distinct Sinne explanatorily idle.
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    • 1.The cognitive difference between 'Hesperus is Hesperus' and 'Hesperus is Phosphorus' is explained by differences in context of utterance and speaker psychology, not in semantic Sinn (Salmon, Frege's Puzzle).
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    • 2.Positing distinct Sinne for coreferential names conflates the epistemic situation of speakers with the objective semantic structure of language.
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    Frege also made a different kind of contribution, which would prove important, to the study of propositions. In early work, he spoke as though propositional constituents were the relevant functions and (ordered n-tuples of) entities that such functions map to truth-values. But he later refined this view in light of his distinction between Sinn and Bedeutung; see the entry on Frege. The Sinn of an expression was said to be a “way of presenting” the corresponding Bedeutung, which might be an ent
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