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Kripke's Critique of Descriptivism and the Conceptual Challenges of Necessity and Contingency

Euclides Souza

Philosophy and Realistic Reflection · 61–80 · 10.55121/prr.v3i1.775

This investigation offers a systematic critique of Saul Kripke's anti-descriptivist theory of rigid designation through five converging lines of argument, aiming to demonstrate that descriptive content is not merely auxiliary but philosophically necessary for reference. First, the analysis shows that Kripke's causal–historical m