Talk:De dicto and de re

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Suppose someone asks, "What's the Dow Jones Industrial Average?" I could answer this in two ways:

  1. "It's one of several stock market indices created by Wall Street Journal editor and Dow Jones & Company founder Charles Dow."
  2. "It's 11,079.46."

Is this an example of a de dicto/de re distinction? Seahen 01:50, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Matt Pearce: Anyone care to comment on the fact that 'the number of planets' is now 'eight'. There I was thinking that 'nine' was the necessary truth. I bet there a more than a few essentialists writing redrafts of their tracts at the moment.

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