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Ideas for 'Intro to Naming,Necessity and Natural Kinds', 'Reason, Truth and History' and 'The Trouble with Possible Worlds'

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

5829	We refer to Thales successfully by name, even if all descriptions of him are false [Schwartz,SP]

5830	The traditional theory of names says some of the descriptions must be correct [Schwartz,SP]

5. Theory of Logic / I. Semantics of Logic / 6. Intensionalism

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Intension is not meaning, as 'cube' and 'square-faced polyhedron' are intensionally the same [Putnam]

5. Theory of Logic / J. Model Theory in Logic / 2. Isomorphisms

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If cats equal cherries, model theory allows reinterpretation of the whole language preserving truth [Putnam]