Proper names and the necessity of identity statements

Michael Wreen

pp. 319-335

in: Synthese 114 (2), 1998.

Abstract

An identity statement flanked on both sides with proper names is necessarily true, Saul Kripke thinks, if it's true at all. Thus, contrary to the received view – or at least what was, prior to Kripke, the received view – a statement like

Cited authors

Kripke Saul