The project team made a requisition for a new set of reference books. unravel v. to organize; to make clear n. unraveling Syn. separate The detective was not able to unravel the mystery of the missing money. The unraveling of the Soviet Union took place in the span of a few months. vague adj. not clear; ambiguous adv. vaguely Syn. unclear n. vagueness She only has vague memories of her childhood. The vagueness of his directions caused us to get lost. vast adj. very much; very large adv. vastly Syn. huge I have noticed a vast improvement in your English vocabulary. Unfortunately, the water quality has deteriorated vastly since my last visit here. volume n. the amount of something contained in a space adv. voluminously* * holding a lot adj
"This is N," where N is replaced by a proper name, is to assert that a sufficient but so far unspecified number of "standard identifying statements" associ- ated with the name are true of the object demonstrated by "this"; that is, the name refers to whatever object satisfies a sufficient but vague and unspecified number (SBVAUN) of the descriptions generally associated with it. (Searle adds the metaphysical claim that to be the person N is to have a SBVAUN of the relevant properties.) The vagueness is important; Searle says it is precisely what distinguishes names from descriptions, and in fact is why we have and use names as opposed to descriptions. Notice that, if the Name Claim were correct, then proper names' only function would be to save breath or ink; they would be just shorthand. Searle insists that, rather than being equivalent to a single description, a name functions as a "peg . . . on which to hang descriptions"
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