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unusual facts about Saul Kripke


Eric Kripke

He is the second cousin once removed of notable analytic philosopher Saul Kripke.


Descriptivist theory of names

In the 1970s, this theory came under strong attack from causal theorists such as Saul Kripke, Hilary Putnam and others.

Frege's Puzzle

This trend began some time in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when such philosophers as Keith Donnellan, David Kaplan, Saul Kripke, Ruth Barcan Marcus, and Hilary Putnam began to entertain arguments against Frege's theory.

Kripke semantics

Kripke semantics (also known as relational semantics or frame semantics, and often confused with possible world semantics) is a formal semantics for non-classical logic systems created in the late 1950s and early 1960s by Saul Kripke and André Joyal.


see also

Kripke

Dorothy K. Kripke, American author of Jewish educational books, and the mother of Saul Kripke