Reference and Existence: The John Locke Lectures

by Saul A. Kripke

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190660619
• ISBN13: 9780190660611
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.2"