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rigid designator
rig·id des·ig·na·tor (plural rig·id des·ig·na·tors)


noun 
Definition:
 
proper name not description: in philosophy, a name that stands for the same thing in every possible world as opposed to a description that could stand for somebody or something else in some possible world
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