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 Still Life: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel
- 2.2 The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
- 2.3 Incubus Inc.: Book 2
- 2.4 Encounter with Tiber (Hayden Tilden)
- 2.5 Teaching Yoga: Essential Foundations and Techniques
- 2.6 At War with the Obvious
- 2.7 The Spectator Bird (Penguin Classics)
- 2.8 The Last Good Kiss (C.W. Sughrue Book 1)
- 2.9 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- 2.10 The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg
- causal theory of names
- identity theory of truth
- regularity theory of causation
- identity theory of predication
- mereology
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Still Life: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
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- Greenblatt, Stephen (Author)
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- 377 Pages - 09/26/2011 (Publication Date) - W. W. Norton & Company (Publisher)
Incubus Inc.: Book 2
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- English (Publication Language)
- 389 Pages - 02/07/2020 (Publication Date) - RandiWDarren (Publisher)
Encounter with Tiber (Hayden Tilden)
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- Aldrin, Buzz (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
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Teaching Yoga: Essential Foundations and Techniques
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- English (Publication Language)
- 432 Pages - 05/25/2010 (Publication Date) - North Atlantic Books (Publisher)
At War with the Obvious
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- English (Publication Language)
- 182 Pages - 08/21/2017 (Publication Date) - Routledge (Publisher)
The Spectator Bird (Penguin Classics)
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- English (Publication Language)
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The Last Good Kiss (C.W. Sughrue Book 1)
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Crumley, James (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
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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)
The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Rappaport, Helen (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 273 Pages - 02/03/2009 (Publication Date) - St. Martin's Press (Publisher)
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