Existence and Knowledge

Existence and Knowledge

Sense and Reference in Names and Identity and Necessity

Document Type : Research Article

Author
Zia Movahed
Professor of Logic, Research Institute of Iranian Wisdom and Philosophy
Abstract
In this paper, I first briefly introduce the logic of identity and then explain the Frege's way out of a puzzle in identity through his famous sense-reference distinction. Secondly, by discussing the difference between proper names and definite descriptions, I argue for the existence of necessary a posteriori sentences. Thirdly, I mention a widely misunderstood view of Kripke and show the right way of approaching it. Also in this paper, for the first time, I document our Persian philosophers' awareness of some of the most important theses of Kripke on these subjects
Keywords
Identity
Proper Name
Definite Description
Modality
Natural Kind
منابع
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6- Tyler Burge, Truth, Thought, Reason: Essays on Frege, Oxford, 2005.
 
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