Abstract
In this article I want to show that trans-world identification is based on a naming relation, requires deictic referents of situations for its description, and can be expressed using de re terms. The theory of rigid designators is not adequate to either the cognitive foundations of identification or linguistic practice, and operates not with the names of objects, but with complex concepts. I analyze such concepts in Montague’s intensional logic. It is also used to describe the logic of the naming relation. Using the indexing of situations and agents, it is possible to show under what circumstances the cases of transparent and opaque naming are selected when reporting the attitudes of agents. In particular, the idiolectal de re of the attitude holder must be replaced by a transparent naming of the reporter as well as the idiolectal de dicto. Opaque naming is appropriate only pragmatically, namely, in cases when it is required to interact with the idiolect speaker without addressing the specification and correction of naming, as well as when using sign complexes explicitly, i.e. in combination with the predicates “to name”, “to designate”, etc. This is also shown by the example of counterfactual naming, in which the dynamic effect of modifying the language convention arises. Identification based on the cognitive interaction of an agent with an object is considered as an irreducible basis for a naming relation.
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