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This document provides a summary of an article that proposes a new theory of properhood. The author argues that properhood is best understood as a pragmatic mode of reference that cancels any intensional meaning or entailments from lexical items within a referring expression. Proper names are expressions that refer nonintensionally. The author claims this view provides a coherent linguistic understanding of properhood, grounded in communication processes, rather than previous philosophical theories. The the

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