Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Eubulides, Theodore Sider and Saul A. Kripke

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5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / a. Names
10437 Names are rigid, making them unlike definite descriptions [Kripke, by Sainsbury]
4949 Names are rigid designators, which designate the same object in all possible worlds [Kripke]
5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / b. Names as descriptive
4951 A bundle of qualities is a collection of abstractions, so it can't be a particular [Kripke]
17031 A name can still refer even if it satisfies none of its well-known descriptions [Kripke]
9175 We may fix the reference of 'Cicero' by a description, but thereafter the name is rigid [Kripke]
5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / c. Names as referential
8957 Some references, such as 'Neptune', have to be fixed by description rather than baptism [Kripke, by Szabó]
9171 The function of names is simply to refer [Kripke]
10428 Proper names must have referents, because they are not descriptive [Kripke, by Sainsbury]
4959 A name's reference is not fixed by any marks or properties of the referent [Kripke]
16982 A man has two names if the historical chains are different - even if they are the same! [Kripke]
5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 3. Property (λ-) Abstraction
13703 λ can treat 'is cold and hungry' as a single predicate [Sider]