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Thanks to Irene Heim for detailed comments and to Sylvian Bromberger, Martin Davies, Saul Kripke, Richard Larson, Trip McCrossin, John Perry, François Recanati, Ivan Sag, and Scott Soames for valuable discussion.
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Ludlow, P., Neale, S. Indefinite descriptions: In defense of russell. Linguist Philos 14, 171–202 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00627402
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