Quote: 'Socrates is a man' identifies a named object with an ambiguously described object; i.e., the ambiguously described object actually exists

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The identity in "Socrates is a man" is identity between an object named ... and an object ambiguously described. An object ambiguously described will "exist" when there is at least one true proposition of the form "x is a so-and-so," where "x" is a name.   Google-1   Google-2

Published before 1923

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