Beyond Rigidity? Essentialist Predication and the Rigidity of General Terms (¿Más allá de la rigidez? La predicatión esencialista y la rigidez de los términos generales)
Crítica 36 (108):37 - 54 (2004)
| Abstract | I offer a brief formal exploration of a certain natural extension of the notion of rigidity to predicates, the notion of an essentialist predicate. I show that, under reasonable assumptions, true "identification sentences" involving essentialist predicates (such as 'Cats are animals') are necessary, and hence that the notion of essentiality is formally analogous in this respect to the notion of singular term rigidity. /// El artículo hace una breve exploración formal de una extensión natural de la noción de rigidez a los predicados, la noción de predicado esencialista. Muestro que, dados supuestos razonables, las "oraciones de identificación" verdaderas que contienen predicados esencialistas (por ejemplo, 'Los gatos son animales') son necesarias, y por tanto que la noción de esencialidad es formalmente análoga en este sentido a la noción de rigidez para los términos singulares. | |||||||||
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