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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 January 2009
1 Most notably ‘Is Semantics Possible?’ and ‘Meaning and Reference’, both reprinted in Naming, Necessity and Natural Kinds, Schwartz, Stephen P. (ed.) (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1977). All references will be to this reprint. Also relevant is the paper ‘The Meaning of “Meaning” ‘, as reprinted in Putnam's Mind, Language and Reality, Philosophical Papers, Vol. 2 (Cambridge University Press, 1975).Google Scholar
2 Kripke, S., Naming and Necessity, rev. edn (Oxford: Blackwell, 1980).Google Scholar
3 Wiggins, D., Sameness and Substance (Oxford: Blackwell, 1980).Google Scholar
4 Metaphysics, Z.I, 1028a29–30, as translated by W. D. Ross.
5 See e.g. Metaphysics, Z.17, 1041b28–30.
6 I here follow Ackrill's, J. L. interpretation of the central question of Z. 17 in his Aristotle the Philosopher (Oxford University Press, 1981), 122ff.Google Scholar
7 Metaphysics, Z. 17, 1041b4–8.
8 Essay, II, xxxi.
9 . Ibid., III, iii.
10 Ibid.
11 See e.g. Problems from Locke (Oxford University Press, 1976), Ch. 3.
12 ‘Is Semantics Possible?’, 102.
13 ‘Meaning and Reference’, 128.
14 See the ‘Epistle to the Reader’ which prefaces Locke's Essay.
15 Naming and Necessity, 124.
16 Ibid., 125.
17 ‘Is Semantics Possible?’, 104.
18 Philosophical Investigations (Oxford: Blackwell, 1978), Section 75.
19 ‘Meaning and Reference’, 122.
20 New Essays on Human Understanding, trans. P. Remnant and J. Bennett (Cambridge University Press, 1982), 354.
21 Essay, II, xxiii.
22 The Bounds of Sense (London: Methuen, 1966), 145–146.
23 Word and Object (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1960), 223.
24 Sameness and Substance, 48.
25 Ibid. 106.
26 Ibid., 117–118.
27 Ibid., 118.
28 In his review of Sameness and Substance in Mind XC (1981), 603–607.
29 Sameness and Substance, 116.
30 This is a variation on an example suggested to me by P. F. Strawson.
31 Sameness and Substance, 121.
32 Ibid., 62.
33 Ibid., 68–74.
34 Ibid., 77.
35 Dummett, M. A. E., ‘Common Sense and Physics’ in Perception and Identity: Essays Presented to Ayer, A. J., Macdonald, G. F. (ed.) (London: Macmillan, 1979), 1–41.Google Scholar
36 Ibid., 29.
37 This term is borrowed from Strawson's Mind review (see note 28), to which I am heavily indebted.
38 Wittgenstein, L., The Blue and Brown Books (Oxford: Blackwell, 1958), 18.Google Scholar
39 I am indebted in this paper to the encouragement and advice of Professor P. F. Strawson.
