LING 2504 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Modal Logic, Linguistic Description, Materialism
14 Dec 2015
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His semantical theory: rigid designation (cid:2) (cid:2) kinds (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) Rejects description theories (both frege/russell type and cluster type) but also denies that names are millian. Names refer through a historical series of links back to original naming ceremony. Expanding the causal-historical view: kripke and putnam on natural. Prodigy in language, literature, math, logic published his first theorem at 17. Major contributions to philosophy: development of semantics for modal logic, rejection of descriptivism in philosophy of language, rejection of materialism in philosophy of mind, interpretation of wittgenstein, theory of truth. Descriptions do not attach to identity in any necessary way. That aristotle taught alexander the great is true, but may not have been true: we can say the same for other properties. Commonly attributed properties can be removed without removing identity otherwise our properties, actions, and the life are fixed from birth: aristotle might not have been called aristotle .
