To be handed in to tutor. Essays will be returned within two weeks of receipt. The view that the meaning of a name is exhausted by its role of designating its bearer. The Millian View has different and important problems. Frege s distinction between sense and reference.
Proper names are rigid.
Difference between fixing the reference and giving the meaning. G. Frege, 'On Sense and Meaning', in P. Geach and M. Black, Translations from the Philosophical Writings of Gottlob Frege . S. Kripke, Naming and Necessity , Lectures 1 and 2. G. McCulloch, The Game of the Name , Chs 4 and 8 . To state something about whoever or whatever fits the description.