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Rigid designation and Frege's puzzle
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Tancredi, Christopher |
| Copyright Year | 2011 |
| Abstract | In Naming and Necessity, Kripke argues that names in natural language are typically interpreted as rigid designators. What this means is that the contribution of a name in a given language to semantic interpretation is an individual, and that this contribution is constant across possible worlds for that language. This view of names was motivated by considerations of metaphysical modality and what Soames (2002) refers to as the modal profile of a sentence. The same view, however, faces significant and well-known challenges when it comes to statements of propositional attitude. The basic problem is the following. If the sole contribution of a name is the individual it refers to, then coreferential names should be substitutable everywhere, including in the complement clause of a propositional attitude statement. Thus, the theory leads to the expectation that the sentences in the following pairs should be semantically equivalent, given that Hesperus is Phosphorus and Clark Kent is Superman. |
| Starting Page | 185 |
| Ending Page | 196 |
| Page Count | 12 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Volume Number | 4 |
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| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
