Kripke's Criticism on the Theory of Description of Names
Deng Sheng-qing · Mianyang Shifan Xueyuan xuebao · 2009
For the sake of criticizing Frege and Russell's theory of description of names,Kripke gave three kinds of demonstration,namely model arguments,epistemological arguments and semantic arguments.Some people claim that,to some extent,Kripke's semantic arguments and model arguments can be avoided based on Donnellan's viewpoints on the referential and attributive use of definite descriptions.In fact,the theory of description of names can not be saved only by the opinions on two usages of definite descriptions,and Kripke's arguments are indeed reasonable.