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276The significance of namesMind and Language 24 (4): 370-403. 2009.As a class of terms and mental representations, proper names and mental names possess an important function that outstrips their semantic and psycho-semantic functions as common, rigid devices of direct reference and singular mental representations of their referents, respectively. They also function as abstract linguistic markers that signal and underscore their referents' individuality. I promote this thesis to explain why we give proper names to certain particulars, but not others; to account…Read more
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13Singular thought: acquaintance, semantic instrumentalism, and cognitivismIn New Essays on Singular Thought, Oxford University Press. pp. 105--141. 2010.
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