A set of puzzles about names in belief reports
Line Mikkelsen · 2003
In this paper I discuss a set of puzzles arising from belief reports containing proper names. In section 2 I present the linguistic data, the scenario in which the puzzles arise, and the puzzles themselves. In section 3 I outline how a naive descriptivist theory of names could deal with some, but not all of the puzzles. In section 4 I show that Kripke’s (1972) theory of names offers different