Naming and Necessity

Kripke, S. (1980). Naming and Necessity. Harvard University Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1980

Link

https://archive.org/details/namingnecessity0000krip

Cited from

philosophy

Cited by

6 citations across 6 artifacts.

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Primes

• Essentialism
  • Aristotle's Categories and Metaphysics foundational (Categories substance/accident distinction , Metaphysics Z on essence ); medieval substance theory (Aquinas); modal and Kripkean essentialism (rigid designators, natural kinds, a posteriori necessity

    This sourceArgues that proper names and natural-kind terms are rigid designators, that natural-kind essences (water = H2O) are discovered empirically, and that identities like 'water is H2O' are necessary a posteriori — supporting the rigid-designation, a-posteriori-necessity, water-as-H2O, and origin-essentialism claims. (NOTE: the existing annotation describing only the causal-historical theory of names understates what the marker cites; corrected to cover rigid designation and a-posteriori natural-kind necessity.)

• Identity-Providing Kind
  • The cease-to-exist test is one face of rigidity: an identity-providing kind necessarily applies for as long as the instance exists, where a role does not.

    This sourceDevelops rigid designation — a kind that necessarily applies to an instance for as long as it exists — one face of the cease-to-exist test.

• Indexicality
  • Kripke (1980) develops the causal-historical theory of names, in which a name refers to its bearer through a chain of actual reference-transmitting events — a paradigmatically indexical mechanism applied to proper names.

    This sourceDevelops the causal-historical theory of proper names: names refer to their bearers through a chain of actual reference-transmitting events grounded in an initial baptism, a paradigmatically indexical (existential-link-based) mechanism applied to proper names.

Domain-specific

• Causal Theory of Reference
  • The ability to refer can pass along a communicative chain even when later speakers lack a uniquely identifying description or hold important false beliefs about the bearer.
• Direct reference theory
  • … across possible worlds, descriptive information and its metasemantic role, identity and substitution cases, empty and fictional names and contrast with Fregean mediated reference are explicit. to An applied instance preserves the invariant under changed notation, scale, dataset, jurisdiction, or implementation..

Mechanisms

• Replacement or Fork Decision Record
  • The hard part is where to draw the line, which is at bottom a question about essential versus accidental properties — which changes touch the entity's defining nature and which do not

    This sourceDevelops the distinction between essential properties an entity cannot lose while remaining itself and accidental properties it could have lacked.

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