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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUDN Journal of Philosophy</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of Philosophy</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Cерия: Философия</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2313-2302</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2408-8900</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">11776</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Статьи</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Proper Names as Rigid Designators</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Собственные имена как жесткие десигнаторы</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Chernyak</surname><given-names>A Z</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Черняк</surname><given-names>Алексей Зиновьевич</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en">Department of Social Philosophy Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences</bio><bio xml:lang="ru">Кафедра социальной философии Факультет гуманитарных и социальных наук</bio><email>abishot2100@yandex.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Российский университет дружбы народов</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2016-02-15" publication-format="electronic"><day>15</day><month>02</month><year>2016</year></pub-date><issue>2</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">NO2 (2016)</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">№2 (2016)</issue-title><fpage>113</fpage><lpage>121</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2016-09-12"><day>12</day><month>09</month><year>2016</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2016, Chernyak A.Z.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2016, Черняк А.З.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2016</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Chernyak A.Z.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Черняк А.З.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/philosophy/article/view/11776">https://journals.rudn.ru/philosophy/article/view/11776</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en">The article focuses on the critical analysis of the concept of proper names as rigid designators. The arguments in favor of the theory of meaning for ordinary proper names and its problems are considered. The author comes to the conclusion that the theory is open to objection.</abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru">Статья посвящена анализу концепции собственных имен как жестких десигнаторов. На основании критики аргументов в пользу этой теории значения собственных имен и ее объяснительной силы делается вывод о ее сомнительности.</trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>denotation</kwd><kwd>definite description</kwd><kwd>meaning</kwd><kwd>proper names</kwd><kwd>reference</kwd><kwd>rigid designator</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>денотат</kwd><kwd>жесткий десигнатор</kwd><kwd>значение</kwd><kwd>имя собственное</kwd><kwd>определенная дескрипция</kwd><kwd>референция</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Фреге Г. Смысл и значение // Фреге Г. Избранные работы. 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