Beyond Rigidity: The Unfinished Semantic Agenda of Naming and Necessity
Jan 2002 · Oxford University Press
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In this fascinating work, Scott Soames offers a new conception of the relationship between linguistic meaning and assertions made by utterances. He gives meanings of proper names and natural kind predicates and explains their use in attitude ascriptions. He also demonstrates the irrelevance of rigid designation in understanding why theoretical identities containing such predicates are necessary, if true.
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March 5, 2020
fascinating work? kripke wrote (sort of) a little book proving that names are labels, as opposed to disguised descriptions, which generates some puzzles about meaning, e.g. how can "socrates was wise' be meaningful, given that the referent of 'socrates' no longer exists. soames claims to try to answer this question but doesn't. towards the end, he says that the referent of 'socrates' exists but also doesn't. and the rest is lead-in for that. also, the title is a reference to 'rigid' designators but the 'beyond' part seems to be an unwitting reference to soames' limp performance. ugh
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