Book contents
- Naming and Indexicality
- Key Topics in Semantics and Pragmatics
- Naming and Indexicality
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Descriptivism
- 2 The Referentialist Revolution
- 3 Three Puzzles Arising from the Rigidity Thesis
- 4 Varieties of Descriptivist Responses
- 5 Two-Dimensionalism
- Conclusion
- Glossary
- Works Cited
- Index
4 - Varieties of Descriptivist Responses
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 December 2021
- Naming and Indexicality
- Key Topics in Semantics and Pragmatics
- Naming and Indexicality
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Descriptivism
- 2 The Referentialist Revolution
- 3 Three Puzzles Arising from the Rigidity Thesis
- 4 Varieties of Descriptivist Responses
- 5 Two-Dimensionalism
- Conclusion
- Glossary
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
This chapter examines the sophisticated descriptivist responses to the referentialist revolution. These responses include versions of haecceitic descriptivism, wide-scope conventionalism, actualised and Dthat-descriptivism, the view that names are synonymous with referential uses of descriptions, and causal and metalinguistic descriptivism - all of which fail. The chapter gradually introduces important distinctions between various notions of rigidity, defines the concept of Direct Reference, and progressively gathers the pieces of a causal picture of the reference of names.
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- Naming and Indexicality , pp. 89 - 173Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021