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" Reference and existence : "
Saul A. Kripke
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624930
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Kripke, Saul A.,1940-
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Reference and existence : : the John Locke lectures /\ Saul A. Kripke
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xiii, 170 pages ;; 22 cm
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9780199928385
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: 019992838x
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-165) and index
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Lecture I: October 30th, 1973 -- Lecture II: November 6th, 1973 -- Lecture III: November 13, 1973 -- Lecture IV: November 20th, 1973 -- Lecture V: November 27th, 1973 -- Lecture VI: December 4th, 1973
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Saul A. Kripke's Reference and Existence, the John Locke Lectures for 1973, can be read as a sequel to his classic Naming and Necessity. It confronts important issues left open in that work- among them, the semantics of proper names and natural kind terms as they occur in fiction and in myth; negative existential statements; the ontology of fiction and myth (whether it is true that fictional characters like Hamlet, or mythical kinds like bandersnatches, might have existed). In treating these questions, he makes a number of methodological observations that go beyond the framework of his earlier book- including the striking claim that fiction cannot provide a test for theories of reference and naming. In addition, these lectures provide a glimpse into the transition to the pragmatics of singular reference that dominated his influential paper, "Speaker's Reference and Semantic Reference"- a paper that helped reorient linguistics and philosophical semantics. Some of the themes have been worked out in later writings by other philosophers- many influenced by typescripts of the lectures in circulation- but none have approached the careful, systematic treatment provded here. The virtuosity of Naming and Necessity- the colloquial ease of the tone, the dazzling, on-the-spot formulations, the logical structure of the overall view gradually emerging over the course of the lectures- is on display here as well. -- Book Jacket
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Reference (Philosophy)
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Ontology
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B105.R25K75 2013
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