Abstract

AbstractThis paper proposes a new, stronger version of the cluster theory of proper names. It introduces a meta‐identifying rule that can establish a cluster's main descriptions and explain how they must be satisfied in order to allow the application of a proper name. At the same time, it preserves some main insights of the causal‐historical view. With the resulting rule we can not only give a more detailed reply to the counter‐examples to descriptivism, but also explain the informative contents of proper names and why they are rigid designators in contrast with descriptions.1

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