C. Daniel Dolson (University of California, Santa Barbara)
"On Naming Everything"
The present paper is concerned with whether everything that exists is capable of being named. Specifically, we are interested in C. Anthony Anderson’s recent suggestion that there are no good arguments for (or against) the hypothesis that everything is nameable. The position we defend is that Anderson is mistaken; formal arguments used in computation theory are discussed and then certain philosophical applications are drawn. We conclude that everything, with specific emphasis on the real numbers, is capable of being named.