Kripke's Critique of Descriptivism Revisited

Abstract: This paper has two purposes: the first is to critically examine Kripke’s well-known arguments against Descriptivism and suggest that they are not as decisive as many have thought; the second is to argue that proper names do encode descriptive information of various kinds, that such informa...

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Main Author: Pierre Baumann
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte 2010-11-01
Series:Princípios
Online Access:https://periodicos.ufrn.br/principios/article/view/797