This work critiques Kant by claiming that the statement “This stick is one meter long” is both contingent and a priori. This book distinguishes between building a table out of ice from (15[1])the (15[1])Thames River and discovering that an existing table is actually made of ice. The third section of this work argues that gold could appear non-yellow, through an optical illusion, but must have atomic number 79. This book proposes a model in which an initial (*) “baptism” (10[1])leads to a “causal chain.” Consisting of three lectures delivered at Princeton in 1970, this work rejects the Russell-Frege theory and tragically proposes that “Richard Nixon” refers to the same person (-5[1])in all possible worlds. For 10 points, the claim that proper names are “rigid designators” (10[1])is found in what (10[1])series of lectures by Saul Kripke? (0[1])■END■