Rigid designator

Known as: Rigid designation, Rigid designators

In modal logic and the philosophy of language, a term is said to be a rigid designator when it designates (picks out, denotes, refers to) the same…

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2009

The Texas Automated Buoy System (TABS) began in 1994 when the Texas General Land Office (GLO) funded the Geochemical and…

2007

2006

This broad selection of Swiss architecture, graphic design, and design from 1950 to 2006 demonstrates that in this context…

2001

Soulevant le probleme de la significiation cognitive de la croyance dans le contexte de la theorie de la reference directe, l'A…

1998

RESUMEN En este articulo quiero llamar la atencion sobre la conexion entre la designacion rigida, con la consequencia de que nos…

1998

MacColl finds the logical foundation for his modal distinctions in the assumption that propositions can change their truth-value…

1996

Self-organizing systems do not require a centralized authority to manage them. Instead, they achieve global coSrdination…

1995

My task today is an unusual and not very pleasant one. I am not here to debate the adequacy of any philosophical thesis. Rather…

1993

I discuss three puzzles of probability theory which seem connected with problems of direct reference and rigid designation. The…

1988

A Knowledge Representation service for a knowledge-based system (or agent) can be viewed as providing, at the very least, two…