Kripke's Critique of Descriptivism Revisited

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  • Pierre Baumann

Abstract

 

Abstract: This paper has two purposes: the first is to critically examine Kripke’s well-known arguments against Descriptivism and suggest that they are not as decisive as many have thought; the second is to argue that proper names do encode descriptive information of various kinds, that such information may be truth-conditionally significant, and hence that a name’s truth-conditional contribution is not limited to its referent.

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Kripke. Proper name. Scope. Modality

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22-11-2010

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BAUMANN, Pierre. Kripke’s Critique of Descriptivism Revisited. Princípios: Revista de Filosofia (UFRN), [S. l.], v. 17, n. 27, p. 167–201, 2010. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufrn.br/principios/article/view/797. Acesso em: 22 dec. 2025.

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Vol. 17 No. 27 (2010): Princípios: revista de filosofia

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