Well, if you'd read the book, you'd know this weren't true, and that Kripke does address this question precisely! Not only that, but these issues, and...
As I showed above, this is not the case. No, this is even worse. The denotation of Trump is Trump (this is an obvious point, which makes it interestin...
The denotation of 'Trump' is Trump. The denotation of 'the entity called Trump' is whichever entity is called Trump in the relevant world – whether it...
We've been over this. They aren't. Read above. I don't think there is any one way in particular names get established, nor is it relevant to the quest...
Yes, that is the point. Minus the 'ostensive/descriptive' stuff, which I never said. There is no reason to think, IMO, that the initial fixing of the ...
Not across possible worlds. It may refer to anyone named Trump in the actual world, but once we establish the use of the name by naming conventions, i...
That is right. The name refers to the entity; it doesn't refer to whichever entity has that name. That would be what 'the entity called Trump' refers ...
That looks to be the case. No. Kripke's point is that the semantic value of a name is not like that of a non-rigid definite description. The latter va...
What is the relevance of this? It's trivial, and doesn't have anything to do with the claim that names are rigid designators. Any word needs to have c...
This doesn't work, because in your example, the description is still not rigid. We might imagine a counterfactual scenario where another man named Nix...
That is not how it works. Expressions are not rigid designators 'for' a particular sentence. Even if it were, having to specify for each sentence on a...
Yeah, so? That's a trivial fact. How does that mean the name isn't a rigid designator? No, it doesn't. If we say if the South successfully split from ...
Read the rest of the post. No. 'Donald Trump' picking out Donald Trump is not contingent on his being named so in another world. We can entertain coun...
As a matter of terminology, descriptions with an indefinite article like 'a' are called indefinite descriptions. Descriptions with a definite article ...
I doubt that equative constructions in natural language track the sort of numerical identity that must hold across worlds. Thus, Batman is Bruce Wayne...
smdh This is a definite description, yes. The same thing, replacing the with a, is not. That would be an indefinite description. The way in which inde...
As I understand it, Mackie advocates moral error theory, according to which all moral claims are false. Moral claims are cognitivist – have truth cond...
Definite descriptions can be rigid designators, and Kripke acknowledges this. However, ordinary descriptions used in natural languages are typically n...
In some modal logics, a world is set aside in the frame, to be the distinguished 'actual world,' sometimes symbolized @. An operator that means 'actua...
A description can be a rigid designator, if its descriptive material happens to pick out the same individual in every world. This can be done pending ...
Thanks – I've actually read that paper, believe it or not (I used to be interested in the semantics of names). I'm sympathetic to the view that names ...
Not really. Are you talking about the domain of individuals? In a standard quantified modal logic, there is a domain of individuals, and a set of poss...
The Barcan formula doesn't 'restrict the domain of truth-aptness,' whatever that's supposed to mean. It is just a formula, valid on an ordinary modal ...
The validity of the Barcan formulae follows independently from ordinary, independently plausible semantics for the universal quantifier and the box. I...
No it doesn't. The modal logic is a formal device, indifferent to metaphysical interpretations of modality. There is no modal logic that in principle ...
This paragraph just doesn't make sense. What do you mean by "measure" or "quantify" counterfactuals? There is no such thing as "an accessibility relat...
For a long time I thought that there was no convincing evidence one way or the other on this issue. The arguments of classical idealists are fallaciou...
I'm not following. What does this have to do with the Barcan formulas? In your standard modal semantics, all formulae are evaluated with respect to a ...
Not that I remember or am invoking. It may be just that I have been exposed to NN too much (people return to it often, because analytic philosophy is ...
Do you think that Kripke does it well? I ask because andrewk's insistence that these are matters of taste is false – and I doubt this can be shown to ...
I don't really agree, but it doesn't matter. I think the intuitive glosses on these arguments just lead to interminable confusion. The 'telescope' the...
That article isn't addressing descriptivism about names. It's addressing the Russellian account of definite descriptions. The translation you provide ...
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