Saul Kripke Quotes

#1. For a sensation to be felt as pain is for it to be pain.

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#2. It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong.

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#3. I wish I could have skipped college.

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#4. Proper names are rigid designators.

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#5. In fact, of course, I hold that propositions that contemporary
philosophers would properly count as 'empirical' can be necessary and be known to be such.

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#6. Certainly the philosopher of 'possible worlds' must take care that his technical apparatus not push him to ask questions whose meaningfulness is not supported by our original intuitions of possibility that gave the apparatus its point.

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#7. Any necessary truth, whether a priori or a posteriori, could not have turned out otherwise.

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#8. I want to read philosophers.

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#9. I just hate sitting and writing - I had to do that in school. Plus, I have terrible handwriting.

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