Philosophical Papers 27 (3):151-159 (1998)
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It may be that all that matters for the modalities, possibility and necessity, is the object named by the proper name, not which proper name names it. An influential defender of this view is Saul Kripke. Kripke’s defense is criticized in the paper.
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Keywords | Kripke necessity identity |
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DOI | 10.1080/05568649809506584 |
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Naming and Necessity.Saul A. Kripke - 1980 - In Darragh Byrne & Max Kölbel (eds.), Philosophy. Routledge. pp. 431-433.
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