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Kripke's Critique of Descriptivism Revisited

Year: 2010

Type: article

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

Source: LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas)

Author: Baumann, Pierre

Language: English

Topic: Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2154518567

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