Nnaming and necessity lecture 3 pdf

Pdf on sep 15, 2007, zsofia zvolenszky and others published naming with. Kripke lecture 3 if w is a world where aristotle never went into philosophy, d is true, e is false and f is true. In these lectures, i will argue, intuitively, that proper names are rigid. Naming and necessity an audience of onethe purpose and necessity of prophetic movement.

Saul kripke begins the third lecture by summarizing the highlights of the first two lectures. Russell, is that a name is a disguised definite description identifying a particular object by means of properties it possesses or, in the case of a nonexistent object, would possess if it was actual. From kripkes naming and necessity michigan state university. If we want a common term to cover names and descriptions, we may use the term designator. First, he reiterates that, a popular view about how names get their. The preface is not written in such a way as to be completely selfcontained. Kripkes naming and necessity lecture three 10ptagainst. Preface originally i had intended to revise or augment naming and necessity extensively. Philosophy 5 lecture 07 kripkes naming and necessity i. Considerable time has elapsed, and i have come to realize that any extensive revision orex. In this lecture, professor saul kripke takes the opportunity to revisit some of the more controversial points in his seminal work naming and necessity. The preface of 21 pages describes the genesis and background of the leading ideas of the monograph, and discusses a few common misunderstandings.

Lectures given to the princeton university philosophy colloquium. To these, kripke will add, in lecture iii not reprinted in martinich, the. A sense is supposed to be that which is grasped by the mind, a meaning in some nontechnical sense. On the other hand it does seem to support surprising conclusions about the modal status of identity statements. Consider a sentence of the form, if the f exists, then the f. Philosophy 5 lecture 07 kripkes naming and necessity. Naming and necessity 3 the preface first, but that they return to it for clarification if necessary after they have read the main text.

In the case of identity sentences like hesperus is phosphorus we have a claim that the. The standard meter stick is one meter long naming and necessity, p. Philosophy 5 lecture 08 kripkes naming and necessity ii. Reprmred by permtsston of the pubbshers from naming and necessity by saul a. See kripkes later discussions in lecture iii about the incoherence of a mindstate being only contingently. A statement is epistemically possible iff there is a world in which, as far as our experiences go, words seem to be used the same way, but in which an utterance of the. Thus the phenomenon of rigidity casts no real doubt on the description theory of names.