Rigid Designation, Direct Reference, and Modal Metaphysics

Sullivan, Arthur

doi:10.1111/j.1468-0114.2005.00243.x

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“…Much of the work of Kripke and subsequent authors has been directed at showing that rigidity does not have essentialist consequences (for a lucid survey, see Sullivan 2005). For instance, even if metaphysical considerations should favor the existence of haecceities this result would be orthogonal to the question of rigidity.…”

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Rigidity, Reference, and Contingent Identity

Haraldsen

2012

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Although it is commonly denied that the semantic principles of rigid designation and direct reference have essentialist implications it is still common to assume that the principles imply the necessity of identity. Previous attempts to combine rigidity and contingent identity have, accordingly, involved several controversial semantic or metaphysical claims. In this article, however, it is argued that rigidity and the necessity of identity are logically independent principles. Both are needed to derive the data usually claimed to be evidence for the idea that names are rigid designators; thus, there may be little motivation for combining rigidity with contingent identity. The fact that rigidity can consistently be combined with contingent identity shows, importantly, that no nontrivial metaphysical implications can be derived from the semantic principles of rigidity and direct reference alone.

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“…This argument is adapted fromSullivan (2005), who may not agree with the conclusion.Rigidity, Reference, and Contingent Identity  125 Brought to you by | University of Manitoba Authenticated Download Date | 6/9/15 7:11 AM…”

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Rigidity, Reference, and Contingent Identity

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2012

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“…15 Martí (2003) raised the possibility of directly referring non-rigid designators by suggesting that there is a conceptual relationship between rigidity and direct reference. For two articles that argue against Martí's idea, and in favour of the widely accepted view that direct references must also be rigid designators, see Sullivan (2005) and Zouhar (2011). 16 I intend this idea of performances of the self to imply both Goffman's sense that humans are social actors (see Goffman, 1959), but also Sartre's notion of performing in "bad faith", and even the difficulty of performing in "good faith", given that one must be aware of what performing in "bad faith" is, and therefore, is performing, versus simply doing something, nonetheless (see Sartre, 1993).…”

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Theatrical names and reference

Bennett

2015

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The relationship between "character" and an "actor" appears to be quite straightforward: an actor acts as/plays character [x]. But let us be more specific and reword this formulation: actor [y] acts as/plays Hamlet. Or -for the time of the play -actor [y] is Hamlet. And it is this last statement that is paradoxically utterly true and utterly false. It is in the name of a theatrical character that the tension between actor and character arises. Asking, for example, who is Hamlet? yields an answer where both actor and character have legitimate exclusive rights to being "Hamlet." In short, to whom/what does the name of a theatrical character refer? By first arguing that theatre works as a reverse-"beetle" languagegame, whereby I posit that theatre allows for private rule-making, I am able to turn to the idea of reference. It is by examining the name of theatrical characters and what these names refer to that I suggest that -following Hegel -theatrical names refer dialectically. Understanding theatrical characters as such, interpretation hinges not only on the output of theatre (i.e., the meaning), but also the input (i.e., the truth value).

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Partial reference, scientific realism and possible worlds

Landig

2014

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A

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Rigid Designation, Direct Reference, and Modal Metaphysics

Cited by 19 publications

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Rigidity, Reference, and Contingent Identity

Rigidity, Reference, and Contingent Identity

Theatrical names and reference

Partial reference, scientific realism and possible worlds

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