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In the field of philosophy, a “rigid designator” designates the same object in all possible worlds in which that object exists and never designates anything else. In other words, when you are ...

Jack Roberts, in his guidebook “Colorado Ice” (Polar Star Communications, 1998), says that the Rigid Designator may be the most popular ice climb in Colorado, so midweek is best to avoid the ...

Kripke, Rigid Designators, and Cartesian Dualism Robert J. Titiev Philosophical Studies: An International Journal for Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition , pp. 357-375 (19 pages) ...

Central to this field are debates between referentialist and predicativist approaches, which address whether proper names function purely as rigid designators referring directly to entities, or ...

Raymond Bradley ha ofrecido una interpretación esencialista de la ontología del Tractatus Logico Philosophicus de Wittgenstein (R. Bradley, The Nature of All Being, 1992), en la que pretende ...