Rigid designation and theoretical identities

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Joseph Laporte Offers An Original Account Of The Connections Between The Reference Of Words For Properties And Kinds, And Theoretical Identity Statements. He Argues That Terms For Properties, As Well As For Concrete Objects, Are Rigid Designators, And Defends The Kripkean Tradition Of Theoretical Identities. Rigid Designators For Concrete Objects And For Properties -- On The Coherence Of The Distinction -- On Whether The Distinction Assigns To Rigidity The Right Role -- A Uniform Treatment Of Property Designators As Singular Terms -- Rigid Appliers -- Rigidity - Associated Arguments In Support Of Theoretical Identity Statements: On Their Significance And The Cost Of Its Philosophical Resources -- The Skeptical Argument Impugning Psychophysical Identity Statements: On Its Significance And The Cost Of Its Philosophical Resources -- The Skeptical Argument Further Examined: On Resources, Allegedly Overlooked, For Confirming Psychological Identities. By Joseph Laporte. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [219]-235) And Index.

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Name in long format: Rigid Designation And Theoretical Identities University Press Scholarship Online
ISBN-10: 0199609209
ISBN-13: 9780199609208
Book language: en
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Dimensions: xiii, 245 p. ; 24 cm.

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