Necessity and Rigidly Designating Kind Terms.
Kripke claims that certain kind terms, particularly natural kind terms, are, like names, rigid designators. However, kind terms are more complicated than names as each is connected both to a principle of inclusion and an extension. So, there is a question regarding what it is that rigidly designatin...
| Published in: | Philosophical Studies Vol. 119; no. 3; pp. 243 - 265 |
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Jun2004
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