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III (c) 151
Dummett pro description theory: verbal explanations help to understand unfamiliar names. >Recognition/Dummett.
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I 43
There is a persistent tendency today to deny that a singular term has a meaning different from its reference to this or that object.
DummettVs: This seems intuitively appealing in the case of proper names, but absurd in the case of complex terms such as some descriptions.
If you like this direction, you can't help but say that this or that description is not really a singular term.
Recently, it has been argued that labels behave differently than proper names in temporal or modal contexts. Nevertheless, as Gareth Evans has shown, there are proper names whose reference is descriptive - through descriptions. >Theory of descriptions/Dummett.

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