Author： Baumann Pierre
Publisher： Springer Publishing Company
ISSN： 1122-1151
Source： Axiomathes, Vol.20, Iss.2-3, 2010-09, pp. : 333-346
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Abstract
A widely accepted thesis in the philosophy of language is that natural language proper names are rigid designators, and that they are so de jure, or as a matter of the “semantic rules of the language.” This paper questions this claim, arguing that rigidity cannot be plausibly construed as a property of name types and that the alternative, rigidity construed as a property of tokens, means that they cannot be considered rigid de jure; rigidity in this case must be viewed as a pragmatic and not a semantic property.
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