Recognitional Capacities and the Determinacy of Meaning

The problem which I want to address in this paper is whether one has to be committed to absolute determinacy of reference in giving a satisfactory account of the meaning of natural kind terms. Kripke and Putnam argue that the only way to get the right truth-conditions for our use of natural kind terms is to include elements of the world as part of the meanings of such terms, so tha