Topic: object and value equivalence
Topic: proper names
Topic: names as abbreviations for descriptions
Note
an equivalence, such as "Cicero = Tully", is informing people about the presuppositions of the language, just as a theorem is informative about math. Now if a name is a cluster of characteristics then an equivalence informs the hearer to merge these clusters.
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