Beyond Necessity

This handout clearly explains Kripke’s argument in his seminal paper ‘ A Puzzle about Belief ’. Kripke derives a puzzle from just two assum...

In my last post I distinguished between terms of which you would learn as part of a general requirement to communicate with others, and ter...

Tristan Haze pointed me to this paper by Saul Kripke, which mentions the distinction between speakers reference and semantic reference. ...

Kripke writes: A rough statement of a theory [of reference] might be the following: An initial 'baptism' takes place. Here the obje...