 This bears a striking similarity to Jones’s proposal. When an identity statement relates two “terms”, or individuals, it is trivial and “is never made outside the logic-books”; but when at least one denoting concept is involved, the statement is significant. While these cases “involve” a relation of co-reference between the denoting concepts, or between one denoting concept and the term denoted, this relation is not part of what is stated: the one relation stated remains “pure identity”. Thus, even in the case of an identity statement involving a denoting concept, such as ‘the present Pope is the last survivor of his generation,’ we nonetheless assert an identity involving the individual determined by the denoting concept.