1. ‘Language as a natural object’, Jacobsen Lecture, May 23rd, 1994, part 1 of ‘Language and Nature’ op. cit. In this Mind version, the passage I have quoted occurs at page 24. See also pages 13, 29 (where Chomsky quotes Davidson to the same effect), 41, 48–49. From now onwards, square bracketed references are to this version.
2. The common sense view of languages may benefit from a perfectly general point which is consistent with the definiteness of identity: that one can make it clear which object one means without settling there and then every identity and/or difference question about it. (Or so I claim in ‘Singling out an object determinately’