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noun:  In the philosophy of language, the descriptivist theory of proper names (also descriptivist theory of reference)Frege, Gottlob – Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy is the view that the meaning or semantic content of a proper name is identical to the descriptions associated with it by speakers, while their referents are determined to be the objects that satisfy these descriptions.


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