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Beyond Rigidity: The Unfinished Semantic Agenda of Naming and Necessity Book

Using a different conception of how the meaning of a sentence relates to the information asserted and conveyed by utterances, this book argues that the meaning of a linguistically simple name is its referent. It also shows that a meaning of a partially descriptive name is a compound, which includes a referent and partial description.Read More

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  • Blackwell

    In his work, Naming and Necessity, Saul Kripke undermined descriptive analyses of names by showing that they are rigid designators. He thereby told us what their meanings are not, but not what they are. In Beyond Rigidity, Scott Soames fills this...

  • 0195145291
  • 9780195145298
  • Scott Soames
  • 24 July 2003
  • OUP USA
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 392
  • New Ed
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