Full Idea
A baptism which, perhaps through some radical mistake, is the baptism of nothing, is as good a propagator of a new use as a baptism of an object.
Gist of Idea
A new usage of a name could arise from a mistaken baptism of nothing
Source
Mark Sainsbury (The Essence of Reference [2006], 18.3)
Book Reference
'Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language', ed/tr. Lepore,E/Smith,B [OUP 2008], p.406
A Reaction
An obvious example might be the Loch Ness Monster. There is something intuitively wrong about saying that physical objects are actually part of linguistic meaning or reference. I am not a meaning!