Fundamentally, this works draws an explicit distinction between "giving the meaning" and "fixing the referent," which is essentially a critique of Frege's use of sense, in order to establish a theory of non-rigid and rigid designators.
The author of this work is sensitive to a piece of terminology that invites the spurious problem of "transworld identification," and thus to avoid Weltangst the author suggests one can replace "possible worlds" with modal talk. This work uses the phrase "The table is made of wood" and the statement of Goldbach's conjecture as examples of non-contingent a posteriori statements to clear up a confusion between a priori vs. necessary statements. Fundamentally, this works draws an explicit distinction between "giving the meaning" and "fixing the referent," which is essentially a critique of Frege's use of sense, in order to establish a theory of non-rigid and rigid designators. For 10 points, name this work, originally a set of three lectures, which attempts to rehabilitate a Millian theory of names by Saul Kripke.
The author of this work is sensitive to a piece of terminology that invites the spurious problem of "transworld identification," and thus to avoid Weltangst the author suggests one can replace "possible worlds" with modal talk.
{Naming} and {Necessity}