Quote: that a mark refers to the same object on two occasions is a convenient but contingent usage; e.g., a language in which "x=y" is analytic

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The fact that the same mark refers to … [e.g., "Tully = Tully" as opposed to "Tully" = "Cicero"] is a convenient but contingent usage, and indeed we can … Suppose [in an imagined language] the first time an object is … etc. For anyone who knows this code "x …   Google-1   Google-2

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