Keelefilosoofia raamat
in mind when I unreflectively uttered (5).
Objection 2
Undeniably, different people know different things about other people. In
some cases X's knowledge about Z and Y's knowledge about Z may not even
overlap. Assuming that the descriptions with which names are supposed to
be synonymous are in speakers' minds as revealed by the spot-check test, it
follows from the Name Claim that the same name will have (many) different
senses for different people; every name is multiply and unfathomably ambigu-
ous. For, if names are equivalent to definite descriptions, they are equivalent
to different definite descriptions in different people's mouths, and for that
matter to different descriptions in the same person's mouth at different times,
both because one's knowledge keeps fluctuating and because what is psycho-
logically prominent about one person for another keeps fluctuating too.
And things get worse. Suppose that I am thinking of Wilfrid Sellars as "the