Beyond Rigidity: The Unfinished Semantic Agenda of Naming and Necessity

by Scott Soames

Book Overview

In this fascinating work, Scott Soames offers a new conception of the relationship between linguistic meaning and assertions made by utterances. He gives meanings of proper names and natural kind predicates and explains their use in attitude ascriptions. He also demonstrates the irrelevance of rigid designation in understanding why theoretical identities containing such predicates are necessary, if true.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195145291
• ISBN13: 9780195145298
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.0" x 8.0"