Sentence examples for designate the same from inspiring English sources

A two-dimensionalist adds that if both designators rigidly designate the same entity diagonally, then the statement is a priori, as 'Watery stuff = wet, drinkable … stuff' is, or as 'H2O = H2O' is.

Kripke would say that if both designators in an identity statement rigidly designate the same entity, then the statement is necessarily true, as 'Water = H2O' is.

A two-dimensionalist naturally understands this claim as one that concerns horizontal rigidity: for her, if both designators in an identity statement rigidly designate the same entity horizontally, then the statement is necessarily true, as 'Water = H2O' is.

His interim reforms also include: MPs living together must designate the same home as their main residence.

As Neil O'Brien – then a humble thinktanker, now an adviser to George Osborne – once observed, Britain has conspired to designate the same city as its political, financial and cultural capital.

Both "Venus" and "the morning star" designate the same object.

A rigid designator designates the same object in all possible worlds in which that object exists and never designates anything else.

Kripke (1980) famously argues that because a rigid designator designates the same object in all possible worlds, an identity statement in which the identity sign is flanked by two rigid designators must be necessarily true if it is true at all, even if the statement is not a priori.

First, a rigid designator designates the same object in all possible worlds as it is used in the actual world, not as it is used in other possible worlds in which the object gets picked out: for although we identify objects in other worlds by our own names, natives of some of these worlds use other names (Kripke 1980, p. 77).

The notion of a rigid designator comes from Kripke (1980), who (roughly speaking) defines a rigid designator to be an expression that designates the same thing with respect to all possible worlds.

So, 'Aristotle' designates the same man in these various counterfactual circumstances; it is a rigid designator.