Acta Linguistica Hungarica
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Volume 52: Issue 2-3
On intuitions about proper names
Author:
Gergely Pethő Research Group for Theoretical Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences at the University of Debrecen Pf. 47, H-4010 Debrecen, Hungary

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Pages:
281–301
Online Publication Date:
26 Sep 2007
Publication Date:
01 Jun 2005
Article Category:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1556/aling.52.2005.2-3.6
Keywords:
proper names; reference; cultural relativism; Kripke; thought experiments
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Machery et al (2004) carried out an experiment which tests the intuition of US and Chinese students about the use of proper names. They arrived at the conclusion that the way most respondents used proper names is not compatible with the causal-historical theory of proper names as advocated by Kripke. The author argues that Machery et al. are wrong in their conclusions. The problem is not just that the interpretation of the findings of their experiments does not take into account some variables that should have been considered, but rather that the experiment is faulty in several respects: their empirical hypothesis is arguably inconsistent, and the setup of the experiment is flawed.

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Acta Linguistica Hungarica
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