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Ideas for 'On the Question of Absolute Undecidability', 'Philosophy of Logics' and 'How Things Persist'

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5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / b. Names as descriptive

16216	Part of the sense of a proper name is a criterion of the thing's identity [Hawley]
	Full Idea: A Fregean dictum is that part of the sense of proper name is a criterion of identity for the thing in question.
	From: Katherine Hawley (How Things Persist [2001], 3.8)
	A reaction: [She quotes Dummett 1981:545] We are asked to choose between this and the Kripke rigid/dubbing/causal account, with effectively no content.

5. Theory of Logic / K. Features of Logics / 5. Incompleteness

17894	We have no argument to show a statement is absolutely undecidable [Koellner]
	Full Idea: There is at present no solid argument to the effect that a given statement is absolutely undecidable.
	From: Peter Koellner (On the Question of Absolute Undecidability [2006], 5.3)