Reference and Existence: The John Locke Lectures

by Saul A. Kripke

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Reference and Existence, Saul Kripke's John Locke Lectures for 1973, can be read as a sequel to his classic Naming and Necessity. It confronts important issues left open in that work -- among them, the semantics of proper names and natural kind terms as they occur in fiction and in myth; negative existential statements; the ontology of fiction and myth (whether it is true that fictional characters like Hamlet, or mythical kinds like bandersnatches,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:019992838X

ISBN13:9780199928385

Release Date:May 2013

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:184 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.8" x 8.5"

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