Sentence examples for designators need to from inspiring English sources

So if the statement is necessarily true and either 'water' is rigid by virtue of being a name for a substance or else 'H2O' is rigid by virtue of expressing an essence, both designators need to be rigid.

I take the case of rigid designation because this observation probably does not need to be made about non-rigid designators (that is, that the reference and meaning do not line up).

In 1994, in order to meet an urgent need to increase the number of aircraft able to designate targets for laser-guided bombs, 10 GR1andand two T2As were upgraded with the capability to carry the TIALD laser designator pod and redesignated Jaguar GR1B or T2B respectively.

The term 'after' needs to be carefully understood here; 'after' does not function as a temporal designator since we are explaining, in part, the very origin of time itself.

Initially a surveillance drone, the Predator was given a laser designator to enable it to guide precision-guided weapons from other aircraft, and then acquired its own weapons in the form of Hellfire missiles.

Intuitively, rigid designation is needed on the part of both designators if there are to be true "theoretical identity statements": statements in which a designator designates by way of expressing explicitly in some manner one of the designatum's theoretically interesting essences.

These were reformatted for further analysis, assigning new designators to anonymize individual sequences and to avoid the use of characters that are not supported within the rule sets of the software programs we used ("illegal characters").

1. Examples include cases where P itself contains nested modal locutions, or where it contains names or other rigid designators subject to counterpart-theoretic paraphrase.

Thus the desire to distinguish clearly between directly referential expressions and other rigid designators prompted Kaplan to re-introduce the Russellian notion of a structured proposition into the philosophical literature (see the discussion of Russell below).

One might expect terms for rigid designators to correspond in the following way: a "strongly" rigid designator would be obstinately rigid, referring to its object in all possible worlds.

They need not be rigid designators in models where the possible worlds represent epistemically alternative states.