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Can aquality be used to reason about New Theory of Reference? #1237

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bvssvni opened this issue Sep 17, 2022 · 0 comments
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Can aquality be used to reason about New Theory of Reference? #1237

bvssvni opened this issue Sep 17, 2022 · 0 comments

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bvssvni commented Sep 17, 2022

http://linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org/Archive/whose.html

If proper names are indeed descriptions in disguise, then they ought to behave like descriptions in all logical contexts--including the context of modal logic. But, as Marcus observed, they simply don't. The statement "Aristotle is Aristotle," for example, is necessarily true, whereas "Aristotle is the author of the Metaphysics" is merely contingent, since it is possible to imagine circumstances in which the historical Aristotle became, say, a swineherd instead of a philosopher.

It seems to me that since I started out thinking about Path Semantics using the Old Theory of Reference, that quality is biased toward that idea, and aquality might be thought of as the dual theory of reference.

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