"flaccidly" - 1 õppematerjal

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So he is not to be refuted by coming up with unusual flaccid names, which certainly exist: occasionally, a description is offered as conventionally fixing the mean- ing and not just identifying the referent of an apparent proper name. "Jack the Ripper" is an example. And in popular writings about Scotland Yard or British detective culture of the 1950s, for example, the name "Chummy" was used as a mere synonym for "the culprit"; it meant, attributively or flaccidly, just "whoever committed the crime." For that matter, probably any proper name has occasional flaccid uses. Frege (1892/1952a) offers a famous example: "Trieste is no Vienna," where "Vienna" functions not as the name of a city, but as abbreviating a loose cluster of exciting cultural properties that Vienna has. In the same tone, on an occasion well remembered by American voters, 1988 Vice-Presidential candidate Lloyd Bentsen told his rival Dan Quayle, "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy