Abstract

As is (very) well known, Millians about proper names face a prima facie problem in accounting for our intuitions about instances of Frege’s puzzle. The version of the puzzle I have in mind is this: sometimes two simple sentences can differ only with respect to the substitution of coreferential proper names, and yet one sentence seems to express a trivial and a priori proposition, whereas the other seems to express a non-trivial and a posteriori proposition. Consider, for example,

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