Abstract
According to Kripke, proper names in natural language are rigid designators. That is, a proper name that designates some object in our world, designates the same object in every possible world in which that object exists (Naming and Necessity (NN), pp. 48–9) and does not designate any different object in any other possible world (more on this last clause below). For example, the proper name ‘Plato’ is a rigid designator, since in a sentence describing a counterfactual situation, for instance, Plato would not have been a philosopher had he died as a child. KeywordsActual WorldDescription TheoryNatural Kind TermRigid DesignatorCounterfactual SituationThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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