ОТНОШЕНИЕ ИМЕНОВАНИЯ И ПРОПОЗИЦИОНАЛЬНЫЕ УСТАНОВКИ

Abstract

In this article I will try to demonstrate how naming relation functions as a specific kind of the proposi-tional attitudes of agents that help to carry out cross-identification as well as attitude reports, within which the subject’s de re expressions are substituted with some expressions of the agent transmitting that attitude. I regard the naming relation as an aspect of contextual dependence of intentional and interpret the intension as a procedure. The abstraction of the naming relation of a de re term becomes an instrument to render this term to be used de dicto. As this operation is being carried out, the cir-cumstances connected with the act of naming come to light, and they become indices of the context. The naming relation itself appears to be a function of the sit-uations of uttering in the orderly structured collection of situations in which some deictic element is retained. This provides cross-identification of objects. I also discuss what happens when two de re expressions collide in a sentence or in any given fragment of discourse. It turns out that the expres-sions that retain their de re character to the utmost degree require some data for their interpretation, which also suffices to establish meanings of all other expressions. It is for the agent that pursues some specific communicational goals, to make the choice of the expression that would require the condi-tions of its truth to be delineated. As regards the cases of double acquaintance, “third readings” and non-specific de re readings, I believe that the “intrusion” of a signifying attitude de re of a speaker into that of an agent for its description requires the properties of a specific relation to be taken into consideration; the relation that is formed between the order of naming and the cross-identification of a speaker, and the worlds of situations that are associated with the interpretations of the agent’s atti-tude.