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Essentialism and the causal theory of reference - by Nelly Hafez Dib

Essentialism and the causal theory of reference - by Nelly Hafez Dib

Dib, Nelly Hafez
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10938/7357
Date: 2006

Abstract:

This thesis begins with a discussion of Kripke's and Putnam's causal theories of reference, and their roots in the descriptivist accounts of Frege, Russell, and Searle. It then presents Kripke's and Putnam's essentialist theories, and objec tions by Salmo

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Thesis (M.A.)--American University of Beirut, Dept. of Philosophy, 2006.;"Advisor: Dr. Muhammad Ali Khalidi, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy--Member of Committee: Dr. Hans Muller, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy--Member of Comm
 
Bibliography: leaves 100-101.
 

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