Single Idea 12237

[catalogued under 10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / b. Rigid designation]

Full Idea

The rigid designator approach to essentialism has essentialist assumptions. ..The necessity of identity is built into the very conception of a rigid designator,..and Leibniz's Law is presupposed...and necessity of origin presupposes sufficiency of origin.

Gist of Idea

Rigid designation has at least three essentialist presuppositions

Source

David S. Oderberg (Real Essentialism [2007], 1.1)

Book Reference

Oderberg,David S.: 'Real Essentialism' [Routledge 2009], p.5


A Reaction

[compressed. He cites Salmon 1981:196 for the last point] This sounds right. You feel happy to 'rigidly designate' something precisely because you think there is something definite and stable which can be designated.