[lit-ideas] Re: What's in a name? (Geary's Lectures)
- From: "Michael Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 18:40:29 -0500
I am ever grateful to JL for preserving my lectures. He will be revered by
future generations.
Angelicus Jones,
aka Mike Hammer,
formerly known as Geary, J. M.,
Dean Emeritus,
Seattle School of Scholasticism.
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Subject: [lit-ideas] What's in a name? (Geary's Lectures)
> In a message dated 4/20/2004 4:44:00 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx writes in an angry reply to Omar Kusturica,
> > A cat is not a 'name.'
> What? You may be sure I meant the term 'cat' is a name of the object cat?
Is
> this not true? Why?
> ---
> Oh we discussed this before. And I happen to keep my lectures, "On what
names
> are not", given by J. M. Geary in the Old School of Scholasticism, in
> Washington State, USA.
>
> In Lecture XXI, Geary discussed that 'God' is _not_ a name, but a definite
> description -- in Kripke's sense -- a 'rigid designator' -- 'The God'.
>
> In Lecture XXIV, Geary argues that "Christ" is a _name_ -- not a
description,
> but can be used descriptively ("The Passion of _the_ Christ", but he did
not
> mention that).
>
> In Lecture CV, he said that while you can call your cat, 'Cat', _cat_ is
> generally not a 'name' but a 'noun' (pronounced NAOWN). This distinction,
between
> name and noun, Geary said, "was lost by the Greeks -- and the Romans --
but
> not the English".
>
> There is a concluding lecture where he goes on to symbolise all that
above,
> but is not in ASCII.
>
> Cheers,
>
> JL
>
>
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