Theory that proper names, or some of them, and words for natural kinds, like ‘tiger’ or ‘water’, have meaning by specifying a description that the object or stuff concerned must satisfy for the name to apply to it.
For example ‘tiger’ means ‘fierce animal with stripes…’, ‘water’ means ‘colorless tasteless liquid suitable for drinking ‘Homer’ means ‘poet who wrote the Iliad and Odyssey’.
Recently the theory has been attacked by advocates of the causal theory of names.
Table of Contents
- 1 Videos
- 2 Related Products
- 2.1 Incubus Inc.: Book 2
- 2.2 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- 2.3 Still Life: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel
- 2.4 At War with the Obvious
- 2.5 Create your own unique online brand: Branding has evolved from nonsensical trademark names to descriptive words that tell people who you are and what your passion is in life.
- 2.6 The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
- 2.7 Game of Thrones: The Noble Houses of Westeros: Seasons 1-5
- 2.8 The Spectator Bird (Penguin Classics)
- 2.9 A Grand Unified Theory of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Volume I The World-outlook Field: … showing how religions, philosophies, and ideologies ... … art, reason, education, … and economics
- 2.10 The Last Good Kiss (C.W. Sughrue Book 1)
- causal theory of names
- identity theory of truth
- regularity theory of causation
- identity theory of predication
- mereology
Videos
Incubus Inc.: Book 2
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Darren, Randi (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 389 Pages - 02/07/2020 (Publication Date) - RandiWDarren (Publisher)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Angelou, Maya (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 304 Pages - 04/21/2009 (Publication Date) - Ballantine Books (Publisher)
Still Life: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel
- St Martin s Paperbacks
- Penny, Louise (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 352 Pages - 06/30/2015 (Publication Date) - St. Martin's Paperbacks (Publisher)
At War with the Obvious
- Routledge
- Moss, Donald (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 182 Pages - 08/21/2017 (Publication Date) - Routledge (Publisher)
Create your own unique online brand: Branding has evolved from nonsensical trademark names to descriptive words that tell people who you are and what your passion is in life.
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Kattimani, Shashank (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 17 Pages - 12/27/2019 (Publication Date)
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Greenblatt, Stephen (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 377 Pages - 09/26/2011 (Publication Date) - W. W. Norton & Company (Publisher)
Game of Thrones: The Noble Houses of Westeros: Seasons 1-5
- Perseus-Running Press
- Hardcover Book
- English (Publication Language)
- 160 Pages - 12/08/2015 (Publication Date) - Running Press Adult (Publisher)
The Spectator Bird (Penguin Classics)
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Stegner, Wallace (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 220 Pages - 11/01/1990 (Publication Date) - Penguin Books (Publisher)
The Last Good Kiss (C.W. Sughrue Book 1)
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Crumley, James (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 244 Pages - 04/20/2016 (Publication Date) - Vintage Crime/Black Lizard (Publisher)
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