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Yes, I agree.

I understand enough to comment that I thought about whether the Sim hypothesis is falsifiable or can be verified. It can't in either case rendering it...

Thanks for the sobering responses everyone.

I actually wanted to just post "meaning is use" in that thread but it would have come off as shitposting.

Difficult to comment on such a phenomenon. Even though our cells are replaced regularly it doesn't necessarily mean that it is in some different confi...

I just had one of those uncomfortable moments of salience, where I realized that there are some things I will never understand. Like this paper.

Ah, a complaint clinic. You're in the right place. Please take a seat and wait until your complaint will be addressed. Which will happen never.

Indulge in it.

Magical Friday Beer time.

Let's see. :nerd:

So, maybe LENR is a feature of an unknown physics due to our inability to comprehend it on existing science. Does that sound as an explanation why Ros...

Which website?

If you're really interested, here is a topic I started in regards to this issue some time back. It has grown significantly on Lenr-Forums. Have a look...

Kripke doesn't provide any grounds for counterfactual definitiveness; but, nowadays it's assumed that the same laws of physics and of nature are the g...

I talked about this issue in the de re and de dicto distinction. Have we arrived at this point yet?

Here's a brief sketch of the book referenced in the OP: https://anotherangrywoman.com/2011/09/22/rwa/

If you could provide me with the full text, I would appreciate that. All I gathered is that empty names have semantic value dependent on the social an...

When is this starting?

Interesting. Steam has it and it has some phenomenal reviews. Might give it a try.

@"andrewk" How do you think Kripke's would respond to the issue of "empty names"?

Hmm, I'm not so sure about that...

Where is the existential dependency for an empty name?

I'm not sure still what you mean by "entity being picked out successfully" here.

Sorry, I meant dummy subject.

I like how Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer stood at the podium like two parents or least like two adults.

:rofl:

Empty of a referent. That's the very definition of what constitutes an empty name. If you disagree with the definition and think that Harry Potter, Pe...

See Wikipedia if you haven't already: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty_name

I'm confused. Empty names are simply defined as proper names without an referent. I've provided examples of Pegasus, unicorns, Harry Potter, even old ...

So, your basically assuming that there are no such things as empty names at all?

From Wikipedia's entry on empty names: A theory that became influential following Kripke's attack is that empty proper names, have, strictly speaking,...

Question begging. What's the referent for Harry Potter?

Yeah, so the picture didn't come first, although a picture may be worth a thousand words. Still, Harry Potter or Santa Claus, or Pegasus are all empty...

Yeah, but the descriptions, and semantic content was arrived at by J.K Rowling's books on him. I didn't read Harry Potter so I never formed a mental i...

Yes, I have. He's got glasses and has a mark on his forehead. But, you didn't really answer the question, or did you?

So, what's the referent for "Harry Potter"?

Yes, and that entity has features, or properties that are its descriptions about it.

Well, Santa Claus, clearly had no referent. Think about the sentence, "It is raining". The "it" in that sentence stands in as a dummy referent. Now, t...

Yes. An empty name has no referent. Examples include; a unicorn, Pegasus, Harry Potter? I just did.

It's an example of how the meaning and semantic content rests wholly within the descriptions ascribed to a fictitious entity that is Santa Claus.

Ok, I guess you can assert that Santa Clause is a plump, elderly man with a white beard who lives in the North Pole and delivers candy, presents, or c...

Just think about it. An empty name only has meaning with respect to its descriptive content because there is no referent. Proper names also (not a fea...

http://www.ecatskdemo.com/

For empty names, yes. For proper names, no.

Yes, I don't disagree with that. I just thought of empty names as provides a counterargument towards Kripke's criticism of the descriptivist theory. S...

Yeah, so if we talk about "empty names", which Kripke does not want to introduce into N&N, by already stating that in the first page of Lecture I., in...

I believe that fundamentally the difference between you and Banno in regards to what Kripke says in N&N, is that of semantic value for names or how na...

Kripke states the following on the very first page of Lecture I. He clearly states that they are essential to full presentation of the viewpoint argue...

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@"Banno", what do you think about what I have stated? It seems to me that Kripke shouldn't have neglected the issue of empty names in Naming and Neces...