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- Title
Criteria for Nontrivial General Term Rigidity.
- Authors
Kosterec, Miloš
- Abstract
In this paper, I present, generalize and develop the extensionalist theory of rigidity for general terms in light of criteria commonly applied to theories of general term rigidity. According to the theory, a general term is rigid if its extension is constant across all possible worlds. This position has been widely dismissed because it conflicts with the seemingly straightforward idea that natural kind terms have varying extensions from world to world. This criticism holds only to the extent that natural kind terms are indeed rigid. If it turns out that we need not view them as rigid, then the extensionalist theory fares well when compared with other theoretical requirements.
- Subjects
RIGIDITY (Psychology); EXTENSION (Philosophy); REFERENCE (Philosophy); PRINCIPLE (Philosophy); PHILOSOPHY
- Publication
Acta Analytica, 2018, Vol 33, Issue 2, p255
- ISSN
0353-5150
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12136-017-0334-3