Reference and Existence
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Reference and Existence, Saul Kripke's 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 transitionto the pragmatics of singular reference that dominated his influential paper, "Speaker's Reference and Semantic Reference" - a paper that helped reorient linguistic 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 provided here. The virtuosity of Naming and Necessity - the colloquial ease of thetone, 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.
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- SprogEngelsk
- Sidetal192
- Udgivelsesdato01-01-2018
- ISBN139780190660611
- Forlag Oxford University Press Inc
- FormatPaperback
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10 cm
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