"A new kind of defense of [J. S. Mill's] theory of names is
given, which explains intuitive counterexamples as depending on pragmatic effects of the relevant sentences, by direct application of Grice's [...] and uncontroversial assumptions."
"I begin by arguing that synonyms are always intersubstitutable, despite Mates's considerations, and then apply the method to names. Then, a fairly large sample of cases concerning names are dealt with in related ways. It is argued that the method, as applied to the various cases, satisfies the criterion of success: that for every sentence in context, it is a counterexample to Millianism to the extent that it has pragmatic effects (matching speakers' intuitions)."
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