"presump" - 1 õppematerjal

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(3) Columbus believed that Castro's island was China. (Attributed to the late Roderick Chisholm.) We all know what one would mean in asserting (3); the speaker would mean that when Columbus sighted  Proper names: Direct Reference and the Causal­Historical Theory 51 Cuba he thought that he was nearing the East Indies and was directly approaching China. Of course, being 450 years early, Columbus did not know anything about Fidel Castro; yet we can assert (3) with no presump- tion that its complement clause represents things in the way that Columbus himself represented them. The speaker makes this reference to Cuba without at all assuming that Columbus would have referred to Cuba in that way or in any parallel or analogous way. Or suppose you and I are among the few people who know that our acquaintance Jacques is in fact the notorious jewel thief who has been ter- rorizing Paris' wealthy set, called "Le Chat" in the popular press and by the gendarmes