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itself; it only undermines Russell's use of the spot-check test as an argument
for the Name Claim.)
Direct Reference
Russell used the four puzzles and (implicitly) his spot-check argument to
attack the view that ordinary proper names are Millian names, in favor of
the Description Theory. In turn, Kripke attacked the Description Theory in
favor of the claim that ordinary proper names are rigid designators. But the
latter claim does not quite amount to Millianism, for not all rigid designators
are Millian names.
A Millian name, remember, is one that makes no propositional contribu-
tion but its bearer or referent. Its sole function is to introduce that individual
into discourse; it lends nothing else to the meaning of a sentence in which it
occurs. If we say "Jason is fat," and "Jason" is a standard proper name, then
the meaning of that sentence consists simply of the person Jason himself
concatenated with the property of being fat.
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