| 单词 | rigid designator |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrigid designator 4. Philosophy. Designating the same thing in all worlds (world n. 1c); characterized by this property. Opposed to non-rigid or flexible. Chiefly in rigid designator.The concept of rigid designation was first formulated by the philosopher Saul Kripke (1940–). ΚΠ 1971 S. Kripke in M. K. Munitz Identity & Individuation 154 Recall the remark that I made that proper names seem to be rigid designators, as when we use the name ‘Nixon’ to talk about a certain man, even in counterfactual situations. 1984 U. Eco Semiotics & Philos. Lang. (1986) ii. 74 It is hard to say whether Putnam's idea of rigid designation really corresponds to that of Kripke; Putnam thinks of the something rigidly designated by a linguistic term as an essence that can be defined in scientific terms. 1990 Jrnl. Logic & Computation 1 93 First-order logics come in several varieties. Constant symbols can be rigid, naming the same thing in each world, or non-rigid (also known as flexible). 2006 S. P. Schwartz in M. Devitt & R. Hanley Blackwell Guide to Philos. Lang. iii. xv. 283 If the extension of a natural kind term changes from world to world, then natural kind terms cannot be rigid designators. < as lemmas |
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