The Indexical Character of Names
The Indexical Character of Names
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名字的索引特征
DOI：
10.1023/a:1004992629004
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发表时间：
1998
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影响因子：
1.5
通讯作者：
J. Rainsbury
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作者：
Michael W. Pelczar;J. Rainsbury
索引词在表达中是独一无二的，因为它们的字面内容取决于它们所处语境的语义外特征。考虑到这种特殊性的索引产生解决方案的弗雷格之谜的变种涉及对象的态度轴承的索引性质。如果名称是索引，那么经典版本的弗雷格之谜可以用同样的方式解决。把名字作为索引也为更难的、最近发现的谜题提供了解决方案，比如克里普克涉及帕德列夫斯基的著名案例。我们认为，名称实际上是严格指定索引。我们还认为，充分发展，直接指涉理论的最佳策略，以解决难题相当于采用索引理论的名称-此举，我们认为应该被视为一个自然发展的直接指涉理论，而不是作为对立的。
Indexicals are unique among expressions in that they depend for their literal content upon extra-semantic features of the contexts in which they are uttered. Taking this peculiarity of indexicals into account yields solutions to variants of Frege's Puzzle involving objects of attitude-bearing of an indexical nature. If names are indexicals, then the classical versions of Frege's Puzzle can be solved in the same way. Taking names to be indexicals also yields solutions to tougher, more recently-discovered puzzles such as Kripke's well-known case involving Paderewski. We argue that names are in fact rigidly designating indexicals. We also argue that fully developed, the direct reference theory's best strategy for solving the puzzles amounts to the adoption of the indexical theory of names – a move that we argue should be thought of as a natural development of the direct reference theory, and not as antagonistic to it.