 Fine (2007) advocates the following view: ‘Cicero’ and ‘Tully’ are synonyms, but ‘Cicero is Cicero’ and ‘Cicero is Tully’ are not, despite the fact that these sentences do have the same structure. The meaning-difference arises from the fact that the former sentence encodes semantic co-reference but the latter does not. All this is fully compatible with English not being a counterexample to (C\(_{\textit{coll}}\)):