Note: shared senses can be contradictory but private senses don't agree and chain of references can be broken; is a name simply an abbreviation?

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Is sense a common property? But then any given description can be contradictory. Is it private? But then my use isn't tied to your use. Is it a chain of reference? But once lost, it no longer identifies. Why then should a name have a sense at all, why isn't a name simply an abbreviation?

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