Sentence examples for use a proper name from inspiring English sources
The search giant's social network, Google+, required users to register and use a proper name for their accounts, although the company did not verify the name given was a user's real name.
If I pick a new name does this involve a re-baptism — the re-baptism of a dead person?! Or if I can't use a proper name, any proper name, do I have to resort to descriptions.
Moreover, even when we do have something like the mental correlate of a definite description in mind when we use a proper name, we do not usually treat the description as a definition of the proper name (as the Russellian picture suggests).
If you need to make a specific point to someone present, use a proper name.
On the other hand, some philosophers have held that true statements using a proper name to express that so and so might not have existed are unintelligible unless the relevant name refers to the object in all worlds, period.
If I have never known Aristotle, but am speaking with someone who did know him, we can both be taken to be using a proper name when we utter the word 'Aristotle'.
However, as Kripke points out, in order for a speaker (qua reference borrower) to succeed in using a proper name to refer to the object/individual the lender was using the name to refer to, she must intend to do so.
It was the highest official title of honour in the Ottoman Empire, always used with a proper name, which it followed.
Coburn notes that the name Kālī can be used as a proper name, or as a description of color.
Then part of his story, part of the description of his makeup, is that Lyle Loveitorleaveit is the "idiot" who unwittingly risked life and limb crossing a thoroughfare -- but idiot is not a new dumbing ceremony, since it is not used as a proper name.
