BURGE ON THE SUPPOSED INDEXICALITY OF NATURAL KIND DESIGNATORS
In the 1970s, Hilary Putnam defended the thesis that natural kinds designators, words such as “water”, “tiger” and “gold”, are indexicals, because their meaning change in each context. However, Tyler Burge rejected this argument, and Putnam came to adopt his position.The rejection of Burge is suppor...
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| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Estado: | Versão publicada |
| Data de publicação: | 2009 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Recursos: | Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG) |
| Repositório: | Revista philósophos |
| Idioma: | português |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.revistas.ufg.br:article/4195 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://revistas.ufg.br/philosophos/article/view/4195 |
| Access Level: | Acceso aberto |
| Palavra-chave: | externalism meaning reference indexicality externismo significado referência indexicalidade |
| Resumo: | In the 1970s, Hilary Putnam defended the thesis that natural kinds designators, words such as “water”, “tiger” and “gold”, are indexicals, because their meaning change in each context. However, Tyler Burge rejected this argument, and Putnam came to adopt his position.The rejection of Burge is supported by the distinction between beliefs de re and beliefs de dicto. In this article we will see the points of contact between the positions of Putnam and Burge, the position of Putnam in 1970s, the main points of Burge’s argument against the indexicality of natural kinds names, and the difference between beliefs de re and beliefs de dicto. |
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