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 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- 2.2 The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
- 2.3 Teaching Yoga: Essential Foundations and Techniques
- 2.4 At War with the Obvious
- 2.5 The Mark Stephens Yoga Sequencing Deck
- 2.6 The Spectator Bird (Penguin Classics)
- 2.7 Incubus Inc.: Book 2
- 2.8 FCO: Fundamental Chess Openings
- 2.9 Cataloguing: Theory and Practice
- 2.10 Still Life: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (1))
- causal theory of names
- identity theory of truth
- regularity theory of causation
- identity theory of predication
- mereology
Videos
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 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)
Teaching Yoga: Essential Foundations and Techniques
- Teaching Yoga Essential Foundations and Techniques
- Stephens, Mark (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 432 Pages - 05/25/2010 (Publication Date) - North Atlantic Books (Publisher)
At War with the Obvious
- Routledge
- Moss, Donald (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 182 Pages - 08/21/2017 (Publication Date) - Routledge (Publisher)
The Mark Stephens Yoga Sequencing Deck
- The Mark Stephens Yoga Sequencing Deck
- Stephens, Mark (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 152 Pages - 08/23/2016 (Publication Date) - North Atlantic Books (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)
Incubus Inc.: Book 2
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Darren, Randi (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 389 Pages - 02/07/2020 (Publication Date) - RandiWDarren (Publisher)
FCO: Fundamental Chess Openings
- Gambit Publications
- Van der Sterren, Paul (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 448 Pages - 11/24/2009 (Publication Date) - Gambit Publications (Publisher)
Cataloguing: Theory and Practice
- Hardcover Book
- Lihitkar, Shalini (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 476 Pages - 07/31/2017 (Publication Date) - BS Publications (Publisher)
Still Life: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (1))
- St Martin s Paperbacks
- Penny, Louise (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 352 Pages - 06/30/2015 (Publication Date) - St. Martin's Paperbacks (Publisher)
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