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    It is not the case that We ought not to speak of unknown modes of Being using any names we currently possess.

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    • 1.Language functions not only to designate known referents but to gesture toward, approximate, and probe the boundaries of the unknown.
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    • 2.Apophatic theology (Pseudo-Dionysius, Maimonides) demonstrates that names applied negatively or analogically to unknowable Being yield genuine cognitive and linguistic work.
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    • 3.If names could not be extended beyond their original epistemic domain, no conceptual revision or scientific discovery could be linguistically expressed.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Frege's distinction between sense and reference allows a name to carry determinate sense even when its reference is incompletely or imperfectly known.
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    • 2.A name like 'dark matter' refers to an unknown mode of physical being while its descriptive sense ('matter detectable only by gravitational effects') remains meaningful and scientifically indispensable.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.All names we possess stand for known modes of Being.
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    • 2.There may be modes of Being inaccessible to our faculties that we are unable to name.
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    • 3.Names that stand for known modes of Being are inapplicable to unknown modes of Being.
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