Abstract
ABSTRACT According to the ambiguity theory of reference for names and natural kind terms (AT), every name or natural kind term can be used (on separate occasions) both descriptively and causal-historically. In this paper we assess the experimental evidence for AT and its theoretical viability, given standard, well-known arguments in the literature. On both counts we find AT to be substantially lacking: the experiments claimed to favour it simply do not, and the standard, well-known arguments against descriptivism work equally well against it.
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