At another point, the author invents two heavenly bodies called Hesperus and Phosphorus and supposes that a table may be made of ice from the Thames River.
The first part of this work ends by discussing an article by William Kneale entitled "Modality, De Dicto and De Re," which the author uses to show a violation of the noncircularity condition. At another point, the author invents two heavenly bodies called Hesperus and Phosphorus and supposes that a table may be made of ice from the Thames River. He also cites an article by Timothy Sprigge on essential properties, though he would retract that reference in his later essay "A Puzzle about Belief." A central argument in this work is that the identity between "mental state" and "brain state" cannot be contingent – which means that it need not be proven empirically – because both of those terms are rigid designators - that is, they refer to the same entity in every possible world. Consisting of three lectures given at Princeton in 1970, FTP, name this most famous philosophical work by Saul Kripke.
The first part of this work ends by discussing an article by William Kneale entitled "Modality, De Dicto and De Re," which the author uses to show a violation of the noncircularity condition.
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