Naming and Necessity
Kripke's modal and epistemic arguments against descriptivism and the causal picture that replaced it
Planned, not yet written
This rung already has its place in the Philosophy of Language ladder and a fixed job in the order. The prose is what is missing. Writing it out of sequence would break the guarantee that nothing here uses a term before an earlier article defines it.
Will definerigid designatormodal argumentepistemic argumentcausal theory of referenceinitial baptism
Assumesproper namedescription theory of namespossible worldnecessity
Related
- Names and Descriptionsplanned
- Kaplan: Character and Contentplanned
- Reference After Kripkeplanned