论个体本质的起源说

On the Origin Doctrine of Individual Essence

克里普克以个体本质的起源说支持严格指示词理论,麦克金则对起源说予以较充分的哲学论证。但起源说在非生物个体上的应用后果极其苛刻,以至难以为人接受;麦克金的本质主义论证实际上或者是前提错误的,或者是不足道的。虽如此,一种反证法确保了起源满足成为个体本质的必要条件,显而易见它也不满足成为个体本质的充分条件。

Kripke made use of the doctrine of origin to support his theory of rigid designator,and McGinn proposed a more sufficient philosophical argument for the doctrine of origin.But the consequences of the doctrine of origin s applications in abiotic things are too rigor for people to accept,while McGinn s essentialism argument either has a false premise or is trivial.For all that,a reductio ad absurdum guarantees that origins satisfy the necessary conditions of being individual essence,but it is evident that ori...