Designator

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Designator (lat. Designator : the identifier) is a term from semiotics . It stands for linguistic expressions that designate (logical) objects. What is designated is called designat (um) and the process of designation is called designation.

The term designator was used by Rudolf Carnap and Charles W. Morris in connection with work on the philosophy of language. Saul A. Kripke coined the term “ rigid designators ”.

literature

Rudolf Carnap: Meaning and Necessity: A Study in Semantics and Modal Logic , Chicago 1947
Saul A. Kripke:: Name and Necessity . Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkamp 1993
Charles W. Morris: Sign, Language, and Behavior , New York, 1946