Rigid Designation, the Modal Argument, and the Nominal Description Theory
In this thesis, I describe and evaluate two recent accounts of naming. These accounts are motivated by Kripke?s response to Russell?s Description Theory of Names (DTN). Particularly, I consider Kripke?s Modal Argument (MA) and various arguments that have been given against it, as well as Kripke...
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University of Waterloo
2006
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10012/746 |
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