Rethinking the Modal Argument against Nominal Description Theory

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F08%3A00024805" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/08:00024805 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

—

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

—

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Rethinking the Modal Argument against Nominal Description Theory

Original language description

According to the Nominal description theory (NDT), the meaning of a proper name is identical with the meaning of the so-called nominal description. Kripke-like argumentation against NDT by means of modal argument can be doubted because names are introduced by means of a contingent baptizing act. I suggest refinements of the modal argument which filter out such objection. I distinguish two kinds of nominal descriptions: rigid and non-rigid; thus there arise two versions of modal argument, which both arevalid. But one of them has a conclusion (targeted against NDT) the truth of which remains disputable. The reformulation of Kripke's thesis I suggest is thus needed.

Czech name

—

Czech description

—

Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AA - Philosophy and religion

OECD FORD branch

—

Project

<a href="/en/project/GP401%2F07%2FP280" target="_blank" >GP401/07/P280: Singular Terms - Philosophy and Logic</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2008

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Contributions of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society

ISSN

1022-3398

e-ISSN

—

Volume of the periodical

16

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

AT - AUSTRIA

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

—

UT code for WoS article

—

EID of the result in the Scopus database

—