Formal Representation of Proper Names in Accordance with a Descriptive Theory of Reference

Polish Journal of Philosophy 8 (1):37-52 (2014)
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In this paper I present a way of formally representing proper names in accordance with a description theory of reference–fixing and show that such arepresentation makes it possible to retain the claim about the rigidity of proper names and is not vulnerable to Kripke’s modal objection.

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10.5840/pjphil2014813

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Olga Poller
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