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Kripke and Putnam attacked a pair of related views about natural kind terms: descriptivist semantics (the meaning of such a term is a description satisfied by all and only members of the kind) and internalism (the meaning of such a term, the relevant description, is fully grasped by competent users of the term so that what fixes the extension of the term supervenes on what is internal to the user).
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There's a grade range, right, and then the description, but then sometimes, you get the lowest grade for that range and then, I don't understand because the grade range, you know the description satisfies the grade range but how come I got the low…?
Kaplan intended to contrast directly referential expressions with expressions such as definite descriptions, which, though designating particular individuals, do so by means of descriptive conditions being expressed by the description and satisfied by the designated individual.
Alyngton appears to think that this description is satisfied only by primary (that is, individual) substances (In Cat., cap. de substantia, fol. 104v).
Now, I think there is enough depravity of mind and brutality of conduct in that description to satisfy almost anybody -- almost anybody.
Nonetheless, he often seemed happiest as a literary agent provocateur, using a graceful pen, wit, satire and often explicit sexual descriptions to satisfy "his immoderate and narcissistic taste for scandal," as Philippe Lancon put it in his obituary of Mr. Peyrefitte in Liberation, the left-of-center French daily newspaper.
One might acknowledge that every physical event has an explanation in terms of physics, but that a fact can have many physical descriptions that satisfy it.
Output formats for all query options remain the same; it includes list of protein IDs and their descriptions which satisfy the search criteria and are retrieved from the database.
The paradigmatic examples of non-rigid terms are descriptions that are satisfied by different objects in different possible worlds.
The same job description could have been satisfied by Hines but for the Perpignan forward's untimely ban for a dangerous tackle on his opposite number, Wilhelm Steenkamp, in the second half at Newlands.
For, given the suppositions in question, Plato would arguably have satisfied the description associated with 'Aristotle' (by hypothesis the last great philosopher of antiquity).
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