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Ideas for 'Through the Looking Glass', 'Philosophy and the Nature of Language' and 'Proper Names'

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

7746	We don't normally think of names as having senses (e.g. we don't give definitions of them) [Searle]

7747	How can a proper name be correlated with its object if it hasn't got a sense? [Searle]

7748	'Aristotle' means more than just 'an object that was christened "Aristotle"' [Searle]

7749	Reference for proper names presupposes a set of uniquely referring descriptions [Searle]

7750	Proper names are logically connected with their characteristics, in a loose way [Searle]

5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 2. Descriptions / c. Theory of definite descriptions

4568	If 'Queen of England' does not refer if there is no queen, its meaning can't refer if there is one [Cooper,DE]