philosophy of language, the descriptivist theory of proper names (also descriptivist theory of reference) is the view that the meaning or semantic content of a...

a metalinguistic descriptivist theory of proper names which holds that names have the meaning that corresponds to the description of the individual entities...

According to descriptivist theories, proper names either are synonymous with descriptions, or have their reference determined by virtue of the name's being associated...

Plato and teacher of Alexander", or by some other uniquely applying description. This is known as the descriptivist theory of names. Because Frege used...

Descriptivism may refer to: Descriptivist theory of names in philosophy, a view of the nature of meaning and reference generally attributed to Gottlob...

called "rigid designators". Causal theory of reference Contextualism and Context principle Descriptivist theory of names Entity realism Frege's puzzle Sense...

of these philosophers thought that a (metaphysically) necessary truth could fail to be a priori." Necessity of identity Descriptivist theory of names...

that form Naming and Necessity constitute an attack on the descriptivist theory of names. Kripke attributes variants of descriptivist theories to Frege...

differences between the views of Frege and Russell, they are generally lumped together as descriptivists about proper names. Such descriptivism was criticized...

reference theory were the same as Frege's, since Russell was also a proponent of direct reference theory. Sense and reference Descriptivist theory of names Siobhan...

Communism Causal theory of reference Contrast theory of meaning Contrastivism Conventionalism Cratylism Deconstruction Descriptivist theory of names Direct reference...

Frege's puzzle has received a great deal of attention since the attacks on the descriptivist theory of names mounted in the 1970s and 1980s by philosophers...

De dicto and de re Definition Denotation Descriptivist theory of names Direct reference theory Direction of fit Discourse ethics Disquotational principle...

(philosopher) David Kellogg Lewis Depiction Descriptivist theory of names Dialectica Direct reference theory Doctrine of internal relations Donald Davidson (philosopher)...

logic, set theory, and various areas of analytic philosophy. He was one of the early 20th century's prominent logicians and a founder of analytic philosophy...

the structure of a name described by Frege. Its generalization bridges the descriptivists theory of a name, and its triad structure (name, sensation and...

(Sinn und Bedeutung) of names and other expressions, sometimes said to involve a mediated reference theory. As a philosopher of mathematics, Frege attacked...

the name “rigid designation”, in the lectures that became Naming and Necessity, in the course of his argument against descriptivist theories of reference...

Boston. Descriptivist theory of names American philosophy List of American philosophers The view that the meaning of a simple proper name is the object...

the descriptivist view that utterances of the type "X is good/bad" mean "You ought to do/ought not to do X". Subjectivism is a descriptivist theory, not...

ethics Descriptive knowledge Descriptive science Descriptivism Descriptivist theory of names Desert Desert (philosophy) Desiderius Erasmus Design Desire...

determining factor for the validity of a statement, such as linguistic usage and definitions of words. Linguistic descriptivists argue that correct grammar, spelling...

linguistic descriptivist perspective recognizes that looking up words in dictionaries is not itself a rule-following practice independent of the give-and-take...

descriptivist theory with a causal theory of reference. In it he introduced the term rigid designator. According to one author, "In the philosophy of...

has been known for expanding on the anti-descriptivist philosophy of language developed by Saul Kripke in Naming and Necessity (1972/1980)—see Soames's...

linguistic abilities. On the other hand, descriptivists have counter-argued that the Internet allows better expressions of a language. Rather than established...

bilateral sign system) separate from physiology, American descriptivists argued for the autonomy of syntax from semantics. All in all, there were unsolvable...

than a semiotic view of language. Such a framework, then, is purely descriptivist and atheoretical—that is, it does not aim to explain why languages are...

pianist. In fact, they are one and the same person. According to Bach's descriptivist view, sentence a here describes Peter as believing something and sentence...

phenomenon, but was already a significant matter of debate in the classical era. The descriptivists were called “anomalists” for supporting anomalies...