Lexicon of Arguments

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Frank I 119
Rigid designators/Kripke: rigid designators are e.g. heat, molecular motion (never stands for another thing), pain, proper names.
>Pain/Kripke, >Names/Kripke.
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Kripke I 52
Proper names are rigid designators: Nixon is Nixon in all worlds, but not the winner of the election in all worlds (descriptions are not rigid designators).
>Possible world/Kripke, >Identity across worlds.


Saul A. Kripke (1972): Naming and Necessity, in: Davidson/Harmann (eds.) (1972), pp. 253-355.

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II 220
That/rigidity/Kaplan: "that" can make any description become rigid, e.g. "that bastard, whoever he may be."
>Rigidity/Kaplan, >Index word/Kaplan.

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