Lexicon of Arguments

 

I 43 f
"Topic-neutral" (Austin): "topic neutral" is not nomological. SearleVs"topic-neutral": e.g. digestive does not need an additional state which must be described separately.
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II 317
Description/Frege: the description delivers the sense, but not the definition (otherwise Aristotle is analytically Alexander's teacher).
>Definition, >Analyticity, >Sense, >Meaning, >Names.
II 319
Description/SearleVsKripke: some labels are rigid: when they include the identity condition for the object, e.g. "the object that I perceive" - also: every description can be made rigid by taking the actual world as an index, then "the inventor of bifocal glasses" is clear.
>Rigidity, >Possible world.
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V 146
Theory of Descriptions/Russell/Searle: every sentence with reference can be replaced by an existence theorem.
>Theory of descriptions/Russell.
Searle: this is the true discovery of the theory of description.
V 236ff
Theory of description/Russell: sentence with description: hidden existence assertion. SearleVsRussell: a propositional act (expression of the proposition, certain reference) can never be identical with the illocutionary act of assertion (the propositional aact is part of the illocutionary act). (s) Reference is not existence assertion.
V 240
Searle: from the fact that speech can be carried out only under certain circumstances (conditions) does not follow that the mere execution already claims that the conditions are satisfied, e.g. "bring this to the King of France" is not a claim and does not contain any. Cf. >theory of descriptions, >Speech acts.