Proper Names and Indexicals Trigger Rigid Presuppositions

Emar Maier · Journal of Semantics · 2009

Since Kripke and Kaplan introduced rigid designation as an alternative to the Frege/Russell analysis of referential terms as definite descriptions, there has been an ongoing debate between ‘descriptivists ’ and ‘referentialists’, mostly focusing on the semantics of proper names. Beside the observation

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