Identity and Necessity by Saul Kripke
Questions
1.
What is a contingent identity statement?
2.
Give an example of a contingent identity statement.
3.
What makes a contingent identity statement contingent?
4.
Why is it a problem whether contingent identity statements exist?
5.
What is a rigid designator?
6.
Give an example of a rigid designator.
7.
What is a non-rigid designator? Give an example of a non-rigid designator.
8.
What is the identity theory?
9.
What does Kripke claim about identity statements with proper names or
theoretical definitions?
10.
What point does Kripke make about the concepts of necessity and a priority?
11.
According to Kripke, do we know a priori whether Hesperus is Phosphorus?
(407-8)
12.
According to Kripke, is the statement “Hesperus is Phosphorus” necessary if it is
true?
13.
What kind of theory of reference does Kripke advocate? (409)
14.
Describe Kripke’s causal theory of reference (409)
15.
How, according to Kripke, is the reference of a name originally fixed? (409)
16.
According to Kripke’s view of the reference of proper names, what role, if any,
does a description of the named person play?
17.
According to Kripke’s view of the reference of proper names, what makes me
refer to Cicero when I use the name “Cicero?” (409)
18.
What is the description view of naming, as Kripke describes it? (409)
19.
Does Kripke endorse Searle’s view of naming? (409)