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Forty Years Later: Naming Without Necessity, Necessity Without Naming

Authors: Almog Joseph

Publisher: WILEY

Publication year: 2022

Journal: Theoria: a swedish journal of philosophy

Journal name in source: THEORIA-A SWEDISH JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY

Journal acronym: THEORIA-SWED J PHILO

Volume: 88

Issue: 2

First page : 365

Last page: 402

Number of pages: 38

ISSN: 0040-5825

eISSN: 1755-2567

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/theo.12361

Web address : https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/theo.12361

Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/68500245

Abstract

The essay examines the proper treament of (i) naming (ii) necessity. (A) It argues their mutual independence (B) provides a treatment of naming separately from any idea of "designation" (C) gives treatment of de re modality without any use of possible worlds, essences, concepts, rigid designators (D) it argues an ultimate asymmetry-naming/referring is a key real notion of semantics; necessity should not be the central idea in the metaphysics of nature.

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