Necessity in Reference

In Bill Kabasenche, Michael O'Rourke & Matthew Slater, Reference and Referring: Topics in Contemporary Philosophy, Volume 10. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (2012)
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I take up a question raised by David Kaplan at the very end of his 1990 paper "Words": Is it possible for a name that in fact names a given individual to have named a different individual? I argue for a negative answer to Kaplan's question via the essentialist claims that, first, it is of the nature of a referring token of a name to be produced by a particular referential intention, and, second, that it is of the nature of a referential intention to specify the particular thing it specifies.

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