Formal Representation of Proper Names in Accordance with a Descriptive Theory of Reference

Olga Poller · Polish Journal of Philosophy · 2014

In this paper I present a way of formally representing proper names in accordance with a description theory of reference–fixing and show that such a representation makes it possible to retain the claim about the rigidity of proper names and is not vulnerable to Kripke’s modal objection.

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