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gradual loss of correct information and accretion of false attributions over
the centuries. But, in any of these cases, it seems that today the Bible is saying
false things about the real person, Jonah.8
It might be thought that ambiguous names--names borne by more than
one person--pose a problem for the causalhistorical view. ("John Brown" is
ambiguous as between the former Scots ghillie who befriended Queen Victoria
after Albert's death, the monomaniacal failed farmer who invaded Harper's
Ferry in 1859, and doubtless thousands of other males of the English-speaking
world. Until 1994, even the highly distinctive name "William Lycan" applied
to more than one person. I suppose the vast majority of names are ambiguous;
a name is unambiguous only by historical accident.) This is no problem at all
for description theories because, according to description theories, ambigu-
ous names simply abbreviate different descriptions. (If anything, description
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