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Saul Kripke’s discussion of proper names (PN’s) has several themes. Most were new, and after an explosion of further probings, many philosophers would grant that many survive, still recognizable after elaboration or despite refining they may need. I stand with the majority here, apparently unlike Paul Ziff in “About Proper Names”. But I also see one of Kripke’s themes as unhelpful, if insight into PN’s is our goal. I will try to show this, but will balance this negativism by upholding Kripke elsewhere. Given the explosion, I am hard put to say much that is very new. I will often be citing insights of others. Still, Wittgenstein recommended assembling reminders for a purpose. Roughly, my purpose will be to praise culture, while burying possibility, as relevant to PN workings.
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Patton, T.E. (1994). Proper Names: Possibility and Culture. In: Jamieson, D. (eds) Language, Mind, and Art. Synthese Library, vol 240. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8313-8_4
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