{"id":1949,"date":"2022-07-19T13:18:30","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T13:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/07\/19\/are-the-names-on-grave-stones-proper-names\/"},"modified":"2022-07-19T13:18:30","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T13:18:30","slug":"are-the-names-on-grave-stones-proper-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/07\/19\/are-the-names-on-grave-stones-proper-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Are the Names on Grave Stones Proper Names?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">You will reflexively answer in the affirmative. But the names on grave stones are proper names for only so long as the memories of survivors are extant to supply reference-fixing context. With the passing of the survivors the names revert to commonality. After a while the dead may as well lie in a common grave.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">No matter how unusual the name, every so-called proper name either actually has, or could have had, more than one bearer. A name that has more than one bearer is surely not proper, but common.&#0160; Thus so-called proper names are not properly so-called.&#0160; <\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">If a name&#0160; has exactly one bearer&#0160; in actuality, but could have had more than one, then it does not designate either one.&#0160;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Names are rigid designators in Kripke&#39;s sense.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">What lies below the stone is not Patrick J. McNally, but <em>a<\/em> Patrick J. McNally. &#0160;And not even this; rather, the bodily remains of a Patrick J. McNally. &#0160;The person has fled or else no longer exists.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You will reflexively answer in the affirmative. But the names on grave stones are proper names for only so long as the memories of survivors are extant to supply reference-fixing context. With the passing of the survivors the names revert to commonality. After a while the dead may as well lie in a common grave.&#0160; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/07\/19\/are-the-names-on-grave-stones-proper-names\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Are the Names on Grave Stones Proper Names?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[408],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-philosophy-of"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}