@misc{Lexicon of Arguments,
title = {Quotation from: Lexicon of Arguments – Concepts - Ed. Martin Schulz, 29 Mar 2024},
author = {Stalnaker,Robert},
subject = {Description Theory},
note = {I 15
KripkeVsDescription Theory/Stalnaker: the description theory arises from a confusion between semantics and meta-semantics.
>Semantics.
Anti-Essentialism/Kripke/Stalnaker: the anti-essentialism arises from a confusion between semantics and metaphysics.
>Essentialism, >Metaphysics.
I 212
Purely descriptive language/Stalnaker: if we had a purely descriptive language, we would have no reference definition of general terms.
>General terms, >Reference.
On the other hand:
Reference/causal theory of reference: (as a counter-position to descriptivism): the reference tells us how reference is acquired in general. - For names as for predicates. The knowledge about reference definition is then part of the language skills.
>Causal theory of reference.
I 212
Def Local Descriptivism/Lewis/Stalnaker: local descriptivism is simply a way to explain one part of the language by another ((s) according to Lewis and Stalnaker the only way).
Global Descriptivism/LewisVs: global descriptivism makes it impossible to explain how statements can be wrong at all - this is Putnam’s Paradox ((s) then the expressions refer to "which things ever"). Then the properties and relations are always that what best makes the theory true.
>Centered worlds.
Additional Condition/Lewis: the simple terms have to split the world "at the joints".
VsGlobal Descriptivism:
1) Global descriptivism would be holistic, i.e. what I think dependends on everything else that I think;
2) and it would be solipsistic, because depending on my causal relations: in that case "Tullius" means something else for me than for you.
>Solipsism, >Holism.},
note = { Stalnaker I R. Stalnaker Ways a World may be Oxford New York 2003
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