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After having read the relevant parts of Naming and Necessity think about these questions. What is the difference between a priori-a posteri...

---> Essentialism + Essential property: a property an object (or kind) cannot fail to have. - Example: being a football player is not ess...

Rigid Designator A rigid designator designates (picks out, denotes, refers to) the same thing in all possible worlds in which that thing ex...

Bits of Terminology Possible Worlds: Ways things could have been. The actual world : the way things actually are. Possible worlds, in philos...

After having read Russell's On Denoting , try to think about the following questions. What is a definitive description? Give examples. W...

The subject of denoting is of very great importance, not only in logic and mathematics, but also in the theory of knowledge. - No general ch...

The Puzzles. "How can I think the thing which is not?" (Plato) * A denoting phrase may or may not denote an actual object . In 190...