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Kripke’s Naming and Necessity: Why Names Aren’t Descriptions

Saul Kripke’s 1970 lectures dismantled the dominant theory of how proper names refer and reshaped logic, semantics, and metaphysics. The argument is dense; the implications are still being worked out.

May 9, 2026


Kripke’s Naming and Necessity: Why Names Aren’t Descriptions
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