Kaplan goes on to use this solution to attack a different problem, the
problem of non-referring names. Russell supposed that if a name had
no referent (e.g., *Santa*), a sentence containing that name would
have no meaning, since there would be no object to insert into the
structure representing the meaning of that sentence. But on Kaplan's
Kaplan goes on to use this solution to attack a different problem, the
problem of non-referring names. Russell supposed that if a name had
no referent (e.g., *Santa*), a sentence containing that name would
have no meaning, since there would be no object to insert into the
structure representing the meaning of that sentence. But on Kaplan's