Kripke's Critique of Descriptivism Revisited
Abstract: This paper has two purposes: the first is to critically examine Kripke’s well-known arguments against Descriptivism and suggest that they are not as decisive as many have thought; the second is to argue that proper names do encode descriptive information of various kinds, that such informa...
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Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
2010-11-01
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| author | Pierre Baumann |
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| description | Abstract: This paper has two purposes: the first is to critically examine Kripke’s well-known arguments against Descriptivism and suggest that they are not as decisive as many have thought; the second is to argue that proper names do encode descriptive information of various kinds, that such information may be truth-conditionally significant, and hence that a name’s truth-conditional contribution is not limited to its referent.
Keywords:
Kripke. Proper name. Scope. Modality |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9639b6c9ec144235aacb37b7b2c83c722022-12-21T22:30:31ZdeuUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do NortePrincípios0104-86941983-21092010-11-011727167201731Kripke's Critique of Descriptivism RevisitedPierre BaumannAbstract: This paper has two purposes: the first is to critically examine Kripke’s well-known arguments against Descriptivism and suggest that they are not as decisive as many have thought; the second is to argue that proper names do encode descriptive information of various kinds, that such information may be truth-conditionally significant, and hence that a name’s truth-conditional contribution is not limited to its referent. Keywords: Kripke. Proper name. Scope. Modalityhttps://periodicos.ufrn.br/principios/article/view/797 |
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