Beyond Rigidity? Essentialist Predication and the Rigidity of General Terms
I offer a brief formal exploration of a certain natural extension of the notion of rigidity to predicates, the notion of an essentialist predicate. I show that, under reasonable assumptions, true "identification sentences" involving essentialist predicates (such as 'Cats are animals&...
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
2018-12-01
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| Online Access: | https://critica.filosoficas.unam.mx/index.php/critica/article/view/443 |
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