13789 | Anyone who knows a thing's name also knows the thing [Plato] |
4944 | Mill says names have denotation but not connotation [Mill, by Kripke] |
7762 | Proper names are just labels for persons or objects, and the meaning is the object [Mill, by Lycan] |
4978 | The meaning of a proper name is the designated object [Frege] |
6410 | The only real proper names are 'this' and 'that'; the rest are really definite descriptions. [Russell, by Grayling] |
15159 | The meaning of a logically proper name is its referent, but most names are not logically proper [Russell, by Soames] |
10449 | Logically proper names introduce objects; definite descriptions introduce quantifications [Russell, by Bach] |
10823 | A name denotes an object if the object satisfies a particular sentential function [Tarski] |
7089 | A name is primitive, and its meaning is the object [Wittgenstein] |
21879 | Even Kripke can't explain names; the word is the thing, and the thing is the word [Derrida] |
9171 | The function of names is simply to refer [Kripke] |
8957 | Some references, such as 'Neptune', have to be fixed by description rather than baptism [Kripke, by Szabó] |
10428 | Proper names must have referents, because they are not descriptive [Kripke, by Sainsbury] |
4959 | A name's reference is not fixed by any marks or properties of the referent [Kripke] |
16982 | A man has two names if the historical chains are different - even if they are the same! [Kripke] |
9041 | The Causal Theory of Names is wrong, since the name 'Madagascar' actually changed denotation [Evans] |
16405 | To understand a name (unlike a description) picking the thing out is sufficient? [Stalnaker] |
10456 | Millian names struggle with existence, empty names, identities and attitude ascription [Bach] |
13399 | Examples show that ordinary proper names are not rigid designators [Jubien] |
7306 | If the only property of a name was its reference, we couldn't explain bearerless names [Miller,A] |
21653 | Maybe not even names are referential, but are just by used by speakers to refer [Hofweber] |
18945 | Millians say a name just means its object [Sawyer] |