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  • 4 - Varieties of Descriptivist Responses

  • Gregory Bochner
  • Book:
    Naming and Indexicality
    Published online:
    02 December 2021
    Print publication:
    09 December 2021, pp 89-173

  • 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.