Polish Journal of Philosophy

Volume 8, Issue 1, Spring 2014

Olga Poller
Pages 37-52

Formal Representation of Proper Names in Accordance with a Descriptive Theory of Reference

In this paper I present a way of formally representing proper names in accordance with a description theory of reference–fixing and show that such a representation makes it possible to retain the claim about the rigidity of proper names and is not vulnerable to Kripke’s modal objection.