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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Quantification and Descriptions' and 'Nominalism and Substitutional Quantifiers'

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5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / a. Names

10788	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)

10786	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)

5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 2. Descriptions / b. Definite descriptions

18774	Definite descriptions, unlike proper names, have a logical structure [Linsky,B]
	Full Idea: Definite descriptions seem to have a logical structure in a way that proper names do not.
	From: Bernard Linsky (Quantification and Descriptions [2014], 1.1.1)
	A reaction: Thus descriptions have implications which plain names do not.