"sandalmaking" - 1 õppematerjal

Keelefilosoofia raamat

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 that matter would not have been Richard Nixon. And that seems wrong. Michael Dummett (1973) has protested that objection 3 is simply invalid as it stands; at least, it rests on a hidden false assumption. We may infer that our modal question is synonymous with (9) only by assuming that, if "Richard 40 Reference and referring Nixon" is equivalent to a description at all, it is equivalent to one that has nar-