How Do Proper Names Really Work? by Claudio Ferreira-Costa

Author:Claudio Ferreira-Costa
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2023-09-18T08:01:59.140000+00:00

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Why are proper names rigid designators?

A problem that has always haunted descriptivism is the prima facie impossibility of explaining why proper names are (obviously) rigid designators. After all, it seems clear that there is no identifying property that must satisfy some weighted definite description of a proper name’s cluster in all possible worlds. Searle tried to explain why:

[the name can be used as a rigid designator because] …we have a notion of the identity of an object which is separable from those particular intentional contents which are used to identify the object. (Searle 1983: 260)

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