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In a work by this philosopher, the distinction between de re and de dicto forms of the second title concept allows for the statement "if 'x is equal to y,' then it must be the case that 'x is equal to y.'" This philosopher argued that psycho-physical identities are false because they are conceivably false, leading Joseph Levine to coin the term "explanatory gap." He imagines a bilingual boy who believes that "London is beautiful" and "London is not beautiful" in two different languages in "A Puzzle About Belief." He argued that "Hesperus is Phosphorus" is an a posteriori necessity. He gave a series of three lectures that defend a Millian theory of names and contend that proper names and natural kinds refer to the same thing across all possible worlds. Rigid designators were introduced by, for 10 points, what author of Naming and Necessity?
In a work by this philosopher, the distinction between de re and de dicto forms of the second title concept allows for the statement "if 'x is equal to y,' then it must be the case that 'x is equal to y.'
Saul Aaron Kripke