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5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / b. Names as descriptive

10925	Failure of substitutivity shows that a personal name is not purely referential [Quine]
	Full Idea: Failure of substitutivity shows that the occurrence of a personal name is not purely referential.
	From: Willard Quine (Reference and Modality [1953], §1)
	A reaction: I don't think I understand the notion of a name being 'purely' referential, as if it somehow ceased to be a word, and was completely transparent to the named object.

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 1. Quantification

10926	Quantifying into referentially opaque contexts often produces nonsense [Quine]
	Full Idea: If to a referentially opaque context of a variable we apply a quantifier, with the intention that it govern that variable from outside the referentially opaque context, then what we commonly end up with is unintended sense or nonsense.
	From: Willard Quine (Reference and Modality [1953], §2)