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sense at all?  Proper names: Direct Reference and the Causal­Historical Theory 55 I asked that last question only to see if you had been paying attention earlier. It flagrantly ignores the important distinction between the semantics of names and the theory of referring. The Causal­Historical Theory of refer- ring has a straightforward answer to the question of ambiguous names: if a name is ambiguous, that is because more than one person has been given it. What disambiguates a particular use of such a name on a given occasion is-- what else?--that use's causal­historical grounding, specifically the particular bearer whose naming ceremony initiated its etiology. Kripke emphasizes that he has only sketched a picture; he does not have a worked-out theory. The trick will be to see how one can take that picture and make it into a real theory that resists serious objections. The only way to