Question

In a paper titled for these things, Gareth Evans cites an anecdote about Madagascar as a counterexample to the idea that these things undergo an “initial baptism” in a causal theory of a certain process. A 1970 Princeton lecture on these things used the example of Gödel stealing the incompleteness theorem from Schmidt to argue against John Searle’s cluster theory and other descriptivist theories of these things. J. S. Mill’s view that these things are non-connotative was rejected by Gottlob Frege, who claimed that they possess a “sense.” (10[1])One book argues that these things must refer to the same entity in all possible worlds and terms them “rigid designators.” That book by Saul Kripke is titled for these things “and Necessity.” For 10 points, what words are used to refer to objects? ■END■

ANSWER: proper names [accept “The Causal Theory of Names” or Naming and Necessity]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Roxanne Tang (UG)Ohio State A (UG)Michigan A8710

Summary

2024 ACF Winter at Clemson2024-11-16Y863%0%0%124.40
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson2024-11-16Y7100%0%0%106.43
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State2024-11-16Y1100%0%0%87.00