Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Eubulides, Saul A. Kripke and Adam Swift

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19. Language / B. Reference / 3. Direct Reference / a. Direct reference
17874 Kripke has a definitional account of kinds, but not of naming [Almog on Kripke]
16394 Kripke derives accounts of reference and proper names from assumptions about worlds and essences [Stalnaker on Kripke]
19. Language / B. Reference / 3. Direct Reference / b. Causal reference
5822 The important cause is not between dubbing and current use, but between the item and the speaker's information [Evans on Kripke]
17033 We may refer through a causal chain, but still change what is referred to [Kripke]
19. Language / B. Reference / 3. Direct Reference / c. Social reference
4689 Kripke makes reference a largely social matter, external to the mind of the speaker [Kripke, by McGinn]
17504 Kripke's theory is important because it gives a collective account of reference [Kripke, by Putnam]
17035 We refer through the community, going back to the original referent [Kripke]
4956 A description may fix a reference even when it is not true of its object [Kripke]
19. Language / B. Reference / 4. Descriptive Reference / b. Reference by description
16988 Descriptive reference shows how to refer, how to identify two things, and how to challenge existence [Kripke, by PG]
17029 It can't be necessary that Aristotle had the properties commonly attributed to him [Kripke]
17032 Even if Gödel didn't produce his theorems, he's still called 'Gödel' [Kripke]