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Gareth Evans (1946–1980) was a British analytic philosopher who made major contributions to the philosophy of language and mind, especially in response to Kripke’s work on names. While accepting that proper names are not mere bundles of descriptions, Evans argued that reference depends on a speaker standing in the right informational relation to an object—what he called Russellian reference.
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