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BEYOND RIGIDITY
THE UNFINISHED SEMANTIC AGENDA OF NAMING AND NECESSITY

By:

Scott Soames

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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC

Pub. date:

10 July, 2003

Pages:

392

Description:

In Naming and Necessity, Saul Kripke undermined descriptive analyses of names by showing that they are rigid designators. He thereby told us what their meanings are not, but not what they are. In Beyond Rigidity, Scott Soames fills this gap. Using a new conception of how the meaning of a sentence relates to the information asserted and conveyed by utterances, Soames argues that the meaning of a linguistically simple name is its referent and thata meaning of a (linguistically complex) partially descriptive name is a compound that includes a referent and partial description.

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In this fascinating work, Scott Soames offers a new conception of the relationship between linguistic meaning and assertions made by utterances. He gives meanings of proper names and natural kind predicates and explains their use in attitude ascriptions. He also demonstrates the irrelevance of rigid designation in understanding why theoretical identities containing such predicates are necessary, if true.

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