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Note: "Cicero = Tully" informs people about a language; e.g., merge if names are clusters of characteristics

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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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