"sandalmaker" - 1 õppematerjal

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" Searle's Cluster Theory may seem to offer an improvement, because it is possible that a person who satisfies a SBVAUN of the description cluster associated with "Richard Nixon" nonetheless does not satisfy the particular description "winner of the 1968 election." But, Kripke points out, human possibility extends further than that: Nixon the individual person might not have done any of the things generally associated with him. He might have apprenticed himself at age twelve to a sandalmaker and gone on to make sandals all his life, never going anywhere near politics or public life at all and never once getting his name in any newspaper. Yet, obviously, it is not possible that a person who satisfies a SBVAUN of the description cluster associated with "Richard Nixon" nonetheless does not satisfy any at all of the descriptions in that cluster. On Searle's view, the character who went into sandalmaking would not have been the referent of "Richard Nixon" and for