Question
At age 17, this thinker published his first article, “A Completeness Theorem in Modal Logic.” For 10 points each:
[10m] What thinker’s other philosophical writings include the article “A Puzzle About Belief” and the book Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language?
ANSWER: Saul (Aaron) Kripke
[10h] “A Puzzle About Belief” concerns the story of Pierre the Frenchman, and whether he believes that London is described by this English adjective.
ANSWER: pretty [accept not pretty]
[10e] Kripke attacked descriptivist theories of this concept in a book titled for this concept “and Necessity.” Kripke argued that the referents of these proper nouns are fixed in a “baptismal act.”
ANSWER: (proper) names [or naming; accept Naming and Necessity]
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