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5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / a. Names
Anything which refers tends to be called a 'name', even if it isn't a noun [Marcus (Barcan)]
     Full Idea: The tendency has been to call any expression a 'name', however distant from the grammatical category of nouns, provided it is seen as referring.
     From: Ruth Barcan Marcus (Nominalism and Substitutional Quantifiers [1978], p.162)
Nominalists see proper names as a main vehicle of reference [Marcus (Barcan)]
     Full Idea: For a nominalist with an ontology of empirically distinguishable objects, proper names are seen as a primary vehicle of reference.
     From: Ruth Barcan Marcus (Nominalism and Substitutional Quantifiers [1978], p.162)