[lit-ideas] vacuity
- From: palma <palmaadriano@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 08:17:00 +0200
saul a kripke did make the claim that sentences such as
x is [bearer of name] 'x'
are "trifling" in a derived sense (from treatment by Kneale) and dispute it
on rather serious basis
consider
mao tse tung was called "mao tse tung"
as predicted by Kripke it is not very trifling, since it is false.
for the record the late J. Katz held precisely such a view, his arguments
were not trifling. see e.g. J phil, 98 of 2001, just before Jerry died,
which is sad
>
>
> "When I make a statement about Moses,— am I always ready to substitute
> some
> one of these descriptions for "Moses"?"
>
> "I shall perhaps say as follows."
>
> "By "Moses" I understand the man who did what the Bible relates of Moses,
> or at any rate a good deal of it."
>
> "But how much?"
>
> "Have I decided how much must be proved false for me to give up my
> proposition as false?"
>
> "Has the NAME "Moses" got a fixed and unequivocal use for me in all
> possible cases?
>
> "Is it not the case that I have, so to speak, a whole series of props
> inreadiness, and am ready to lean on one if another should be taken from
> under me and vice versa?"
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