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>>18816423
Yes! This is exactly what Frege and Husserl talked about. You need to read Frege's short paper "Sense and Reference". Husserl also talks about it in his First Logical Investigation. For Frege, when you say "a doorway", and the french says "a porte", you and he are both referring to the same object; the difference is in the in the *sense* you refer to the doorway. According to Frege, senses are ideal objects, - the meaning of words and propositions - which determine the reference of the word or proposition. Frege distinguishes between the objective sense, which exists independently of people, and the subjective idea. You and I necessarily have different ideas when we talk about the doorway (because your idea exists in your head and mine in my head), but the objective meaning is our common property which enables us to communicate. Husserl also argues for the same thing but with a slightly different terminology.