General terms and rigidity: another solution to the trivialization problem
In this paper I am concerned with the problem of applying the notion of rigidity to general terms. In Naming and Necessity, Kripke has clearly suggested that we should include some general terms among the rigid ones, namely, those common nouns semantically correlated with natural substances, species...
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Universidade Estadual de Campinas
2014-06-01
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-60452014000100002&lng=en&tlng=en |