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This selection of essays is the definitive model of a broadly mentioned debate over the origins of the hot conception of Reference. In new articles written particularly for this quantity, Quentin Smith and Scott Soames, the unique members within the debate, tricky their positions on who was once accountable for the guidelines that Saul Kripke offered in his Naming and Necessity. they're joined by means of John Burgess, who weighs in at the aspect of Soames, whereas Smith provides a additional size in discussing the contributions of philosophers such as F?llesdal, Geach, Hintikka, and Plantinga. additionally incorporated are long excerpts from F?llesdal's 1961 Harvard dissertation and a cautious exam by way of Sten Lindstr?m of the respective contributions of Kripke and Stig Kanger to the improvement of modal semantics. the gathering should be crucial studying for someone accustomed to those influential rules.
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Soames is also mistaken on this point. He refers to Smullyan's 1948 article on 'Modality and Description" in The Journal of Symbolic Logic and his 1947 review (in the same journal) of Quine's article on modal logic. The reference to the 1948 article on 'Modality and Description' is a red herring, since Smullyan there discusses the issue of whether the modal paradoxes suggested by Quine can be resolved by treating the relevant expressions, not as names, but as descriptions or class abstracts. For example on page 35 he says that: Our discussion of the argument, ABC, may seem to have depended, at certain crucial points, upon our decision, to interpret the expression, 'the number of the planets' as a definite description.
They were never competitors in the past, and there is no need now to tear one down to elevate the other. 48 Department of Philosophy Princeton University NOTES 1 Synthese, XIII, Dec. 1961,303-22. This paper is reprinted in Ruth Barcan Marcus, Modalities, (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press), 1993. Citations from the paper will be from Modalities. C. Barcan (Marcus), 'A Functional Calculus of First Order Based on Strict Implication', Journal of Symbolic Logic, 11, 1946, 1-16. C. Barcan (Marcus), 'The Deduction Theorem in a Functional Calculus of First Order Based on Strict Implication', The Journal of Symbolic Logic, 11,1946,115-8.
Furthermore, if entities X and Y have been identified with each other, it seems reasonable to suppose that the names of X and Y should also be everywhere intersubstitutable where they are being used as names. According to Church's view, on the other hand [which is distinct from Ruth Barcan's view] two names of the same thing might differ in sense and so not be intersubstitutable. (p. ) This passage confirms what Marcus told me in an interview, that she developed this view of names and descriptions in course of writing her thesis in 1943-45 MARCUS AND THE NEW THEORY OF REFERENCE 39 and explained them in conversation to her dissertation adviser Fitch.