On descriptivism and natural kind terms. Reply to Fernández Moreno

Manuscrito 43 (4):86-96 (2020)
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Luis Fernández Moreno has given a number of arguments that descriptive knowledge or stipulations have a greater role in the fixing of the reference of natural kind terms than I allow in my book Roads to Reference. In this note I criticize Fernández Moreno’s arguments.

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