Necessity and Rigidly Designating Kind Terms |
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Authors: | Ben S. Cordry |
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Affiliation: | (1) Arts and Humanities, Lorain County Community College, 1005 Abbe Rd N, Elyria, OH, 44035, USA E-mail |
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Abstract: | Kripke claims that certainkind terms, particularly natural kind terms,are, like names, rigid designators. However,kind terms are more complicated than names aseach is connected both to a principle ofinclusion and an extension. So, there is aquestion regarding what it is that rigidlydesignating kind terms rigidly designate. Inthis paper, I assume that there are rigidlydesignating kind terms and attempt to answerthe question as to what it is that they rigidlydesignate. I then use this analysis of rigidlydesignating kind terms to show how Kripke'sreasoning regarding the necessity of `Hesperusis Phosphorus' can be extended to statementsinvolving kind terms like `Water is H2O'and `Tigers are mammals'. |
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