Lexicon of Arguments

 

I 81
Non-rigidness/non-rigid/predicate/Stalnaker: non-rigid predicates correspond to different intrinsic properties in various possible worlds.
>Predicates, >Possible worlds, >Intrinsicness.
I 185
Rigidness/Stalnaker: does rigidness presuppose cross world identity?
>Cross world identity.
I 197
Dthis/Dthat/Kaplan/Rigid-making operator/Stalnaker: (Kaplan 1978)⁽¹⁾: "dthis" and "dthat" always refer the object back to the actual world (i.e. they make it rigid). The reference is then in each possible world the original from the real world.
>Dthat/Kaplan.
I 198
E.g. Julius/Zipper/Evans/Stalnaker: the zipper example can be interpreted in two ways.
a) As an abbreviation of a complex singular term dthis [the inventor of the zipper], then the inventor of the zipper is part of the meaning. And it is a logical truth that he invented it.
b) As a definition: that Julius is the name of a person.
Then it would be a semantic one ((s) not a logical connection) between the name and person. Then the role of the description, the reference, would have to be defined, e.g. someone overhears the name: case a) then this person does not understand the statement. Then dthis [the person to whom Stalnaker referred on the occasion].
Ad b) if the semantic properties of Julius are part of the historical causal chain, the competent speaker does not need to know anything about it.
>Semantic properties.

1. Kaplan, David. 1978. Dthat. In Peter Cole (ed.), Syntax and Semantics. Academic Press. pp. 221--243