Manuscrito (Nov 2020)

ON DESCRIPTIVISM AND NATURAL KIND TERMS. REPLY TO FERNÁNDEZ MORENO

  • MARIO GÓMEZ-TORRENTE

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/0100-6045.2020.v43n4.mg
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 43, no. 4
pp. 86 – 96

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Abstract Luis Fernández Moreno has given a number of arguments that descriptive knowledge or stipulations have a greater role in the fixing of the reference of natural kind terms than I allow in my book Roads to Reference. In this note I criticize Fernández Moreno’s arguments.

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