11 ideas
10429 | It is best to say that a name designates iff there is something for it to designate [Sainsbury] |
10425 | Definite descriptions may not be referring expressions, since they can fail to refer [Sainsbury] |
10438 | Definite descriptions are usually rigid in subject, but not in predicate, position [Sainsbury] |
23647 | Objects have an essential constitution, producing its qualities, which we are too ignorant to define [Reid] |
11958 | Impossibilites are easily conceived in mathematics and geometry [Reid, by Molnar] |
12583 | Belief truth-conditions are normal circumstances where the belief is supposed to occur [Papineau] |
23646 | Reference is by name, or a term-plus-circumstance, or ostensively, or by description [Reid] |
10432 | A new usage of a name could arise from a mistaken baptism of nothing [Sainsbury] |
23645 | A word's meaning is the thing conceived, as fixed by linguistic experts [Reid] |
10434 | Even a quantifier like 'someone' can be used referentially [Sainsbury] |
10431 | Things are thought to have a function, even when they can't perform them [Sainsbury] |