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- Title
Essence, Application, and Explanation.
- Authors
Haraldsen, Fredrik
- Abstract
It is often thought that a notion of general term rigidity could help explain the particular behavior of natural kind terms in modal contexts. An influential strategy for developing a non-trivial account of general term rigidity appeals to essential properties of the things to which such terms apply. I show that essentialism cannot underpin a notion of rigidity that can play the expected explanatory roles. Essentialists are committed to presuppositions that themselves play those roles without implying essentialism.
- Subjects
ESSENTIALISM (Philosophy); EXPLANATION; PRESUPPOSITION (Logic); RIGIDITY (Psychology); SUBSTANCE (Philosophy)
- Publication
Acta Analytica, 2016, Vol 31, Issue 2, p179
- ISSN
0353-5150
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12136-015-0272-x