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In this paper I want to deal with the issue of the cognitive value of referential devices in order to assess which account of this issue turns out to be more adequate to address what is called Frege’s problem. My main critical focus will be on the non-semantic accounts of the cognitive value that most people adhering to the direct reference picture have put forward