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naming ceremony, he says, is only one kind of occasion that can ground
an appropriate historical chain; other perceptual encounters can serve also.
Instead of there being just the single linear causal chain that goes back from
one's utterance to the original naming ceremony, the structure is mangrove-
like: the utterance proceeds also out of further historical chains that are
grounded in later stages of the bearer itself. Once our use of "Madagascar"
has a large preponderance of its groundings in the island rather than the
mainland region, it thereby comes to designate the island; once our use of
"Jack" is heavily grounded in many people's perceptual encounters with the
man called that, those groundings will overmaster the chain that began with
the naming ceremony. This is vague, of course, perhaps objectionably so.
Objection 3
We can misidentify the object of a naming ceremony. Suppose I am seeking a
new pet from the Animal Shelter. I have visited the Shelter several times and
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