A NOTE ON KRIPKE's FOOTNOTE 56 ARGUMENT FOR THE ESSENTIALITY OF ORIGIN |
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| Authors: | Ross P. Cameron |
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| Affiliation: | Arché, AHRC Centre for the Philosophy of Logic, Language, Mathematics and Mind School of Philosophical and Anthropological Studies University of St. Andrews Fife Scotland KY16 9AL |
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| Abstract: | In footnote 56 of his Naming and Necessity, Kripke offers a ‘proof’ of the essentiality of origin. On its most literal reading the argument is clearly flawed, as was made clear by Nathan Salmon. Salmon attempts to save the literal reading of the argument, but I argue that the new argument is flawed as well, and that it can’t be what Kripke intended. I offer an alternative reconstruction of Kripke's argument, but I show that this suffers from a more subtle fault. |
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