how do a name
refer to an object?
a name is connected
to an object throught an
act of “primal baptism”,
in which the name
continues to refer to
that object even if all
the descriptive feautures
of the object have
changed completely.
to an object throught an
act of “primal baptism”,
in which the name
continues to refer to
that object even if all
the descriptive feautures
of the object have
changed completely.
what it is in the object,
beyond its descriptive features,
constitutes its identity.
beyond its descriptive features,
constitutes its identity.
it is the name itself,
the signifier,
which supports the
idetity of the object.
the signifier,
which supports the
idetity of the object.
name,
something in it
more than itself.
something in it
more than itself.
extract from Žižek,
the sublime object of ideology 1989.
Saul Kripke’s ideas on antidescriptivism.
the sublime object of ideology 1989.
Saul Kripke’s ideas on antidescriptivism.