... of posing a theory of how the meaning of a name is transmitted. He introduces the concept of 'initial baptism'; an intentional naming through conscious pinpointing of an object and assigning it a name4. Kripke suggests that the object need not necessarily fulfil the appropriate descriptive content for the name to refer to it and that descriptions restrict possibilities of the referentiality of names. Kripke's account, then, most certainly contrasts with a descriptive theory, which states that names can refer to objects when a set of descriptive properties is fulfilled,5 thus, the descriptivist would believe there to be properties associated with each proper name that identify the possessor by means of the description itself.6 Searle investigates the possession of a 'sense'7 by proper names, posing two disjunctive criteria for an object to possess sense: Firstly, having the usage of providing description or specifying qualities of objects8, and secondly, having the property ...

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