Kripke on necessity and identity

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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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Identity over time.Andre Gallois - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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Naming and Necessity: Lectures Given to the Princeton University Philosophy Colloquium.Saul A. Kripke - 1980 - Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Edited by Darragh Byrne & Max Kölbel.

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