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Joseph LaPorte offers an original account of the connections between the reference of words for properties and kinds, and theoretical identity statements. He argues that terms for properties, as well as for concrete objects, are rigid designators, and defends the Kripkean tradition of theoretical id...

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Main Author: LaPorte, Joseph
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Reference (Philosophy)
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Référence (Philosophie)
Identité.
identity.
PHILOSOPHY > Epistemology.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Joseph LaPorte offers an original account of the connections between the reference of words for properties and kinds, and theoretical identity statements. He argues that terms for properties, as well as for concrete objects, are rigid designators, and defends the Kripkean tradition of theoretical identities.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780191642838
0191642835
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9781283837293
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0191745022
0199609209
9780199609208