"antecedently" - 1 õppematerjal

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But it is unclear that this is always because the description was one the speaker  Proper names: the Description Theory 37 already had determinately in mind. If you ask me, "Who is Sellars?," I might make any of a number of answers that come to mind, depending on what sort of information I think you may want about him. It hardly follows that the answer I do produce is the precise description that my use of "Sellars" antecedently expressed. Notice: The complaint is not merely that it would be hard to find out which description a speaker "had in mind" in uttering some name. The stronger thesis is that at least in many cases there is no single determinate descrip- tion that the speaker "has in mind," either consciously or subconsciously. I see little reason (independent of the semantical puzzles) for thinking that there is a fact of the matter as to whether "Wilfrid Sellars" is used as