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Quote: a name is a fixed point of the language, not an abbreviated description; compare distributive sets for someone dying vs. changing sex
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names as rigid designators
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names as abbreviations for descriptions
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"A name introduced via description is nothing … A name is a fixed point in a … Even death does not undo a name in … sex, it is likely that his name would … This should not be surprising. The information-content of … relatively slight change in the distributive set of … Google-1 Google-2
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Topic: names as rigid designators (43 items)
Topic: names as abbreviations for descriptions (35 items)