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(1998) Synthese 114 (2).

Proper names and the necessity of identity statements

Michael Wreen

pp. 319-335

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

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DOI: 10.1023/A:1005002220981

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Wreen, M. (1998). Proper names and the necessity of identity statements. Synthese 114 (2), pp. 319-335.

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