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Philosophy of language and Rigid designator

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Difference between Philosophy of language and Rigid designator

Philosophy of language vs. Rigid designator

Philosophy of language explores the relationship between language and reality. In modal logic and the philosophy of language, a term is said to be a rigid designator or absolute substantial term when it designates (picks out, denotes, refers to) the same thing in all possible worlds in which that thing exists and does not designate anything else in those possible worlds in which that thing does not exist.

Similarities between Philosophy of language and Rigid designator

Philosophy of language and Rigid designator have 6 things in common (in Unionpedia): Analytic philosophy, Bertrand Russell, Descriptivist theory of names, Gottlob Frege, Saul Kripke, Scholasticism.

Analytic philosophy

Analytic philosophy (sometimes analytical philosophy) is a style of philosophy that became dominant in the Western world at the beginning of the 20th century.

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Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist, and Nobel laureate.

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Descriptivist theory of names

The descriptivist theory of proper names is that the meaning or semantic content of a proper name is identical to the descriptions associated with it by speakers, while their referents are determined to be the objects that satisfy these descriptions.

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Gottlob Frege

Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (8 November 1848 – 26 July 1925) was a German philosopher, logician, and mathematician.

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Saul Kripke

Saul Aaron Kripke (born November 13, 1940) is an American philosopher and logician.

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Scholasticism

Scholasticism is a method of critical thought which dominated teaching by the academics ("scholastics", or "schoolmen") of medieval universities in Europe from about 1100 to 1700, and a program of employing that method in articulating and defending dogma in an increasingly pluralistic context.

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Philosophy of language and Rigid designator Comparison

Philosophy of language has 222 relations, while Rigid designator has 32. As they have in common 6, the Jaccard index is 2.36% = 6 / (222 + 32).

References

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