Lexicon of Arguments

 

I 70f
Frege and Russell support the thesis according to which a proper name is not a fixed term expression and is synonymous with the description that replaces it.
>Description/Kripke, >Name/Kripke, >Rigidity/Kripke, >Naming/Kripke, >Denotation/Kripke.
E.g. if "Moses" means "the man who did this and that", then Moses never existed if no one did this and that (KripkeVs).
I 81
You could say "the Jonah in the book never existed", as one might say "the Hitler in the Nazi propaganda never existed." But: existence is independent of representation.
>Presentation.
I 92
Counterfactual: even if you say "suppose Hitler would never have been born," then the name "Hitler" here refers, and still in a rigid manner, to something that would not exist in the described counterfactual situation.
I 31, I 179
A discovery (e.g. fossils) does not provide proof of existence of figures from myths (this is not sufficiently determined).