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Beyond Rigidity: The Unfinished Semantic Agenda of Naming and Necessity

By Scott Soames

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2002
ISBN
0195145283, 9780195145281
LCC
BD417 .S63 2002
Open Library ID
OL22468602M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (2180437 bytes)
Pages
392\392
DPI
300
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

In this fascinating work, Scott Soames offers a new conception of the relationship between linguistic meaning and assertions made by utterances. He gives meanings of proper names and natural kind predicates and explains their use in attitude ascriptions. He also demonstrates the irrelevance of rigid designation in understanding why theoretical identities containing such predicates are necessary, if true.

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