Full Idea
The criteria for a genuine singular term should pick out not the singular terms themselves but their uses, since they may be genuine in one context and not another.
Gist of Idea
We should decide whether singular terms are genuine by their usage
Source
Bob Hale (Abstract Objects [1987], Ch.2.II)
Book Reference
Hale,Bob: 'Abstract Objects' [Blackwell 1987], p.28
A Reaction
[rephrased] This will certainly meet problems with vagueness (e.g. as the reference of a singular term is gradually clarified).
Related Idea
Idea 16375 Singular thoughts need a mental file, and an acquaintance relation from file to object [Recanati]