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Ideas of Stephen P. Schwartz, by Text

[American, fl. 1980, Professor at Ithaca University.]

1977 Intro to Naming,Necessity and Natural Kinds
§II p.14 The intension of "lemon" is the conjunction of properties associated with it
§III p.22 We refer to Thales successfully by name, even if all descriptions of him are false
§III p.23 The traditional theory of names says some of the descriptions must be correct
§III p.30 The new view is that "water" is a name, and has no definition