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Naming and epistemic necessity
Author(s) -
Ninan Dilip
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
noûs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.574
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1468-0068
pISSN - 0029-4624
DOI - 10.1111/nous.12314
Subject(s) - modal verb , metaphysics , scope (computer science) , epistemology , rigidity (electromagnetism) , kripke semantics , mathematics , philosophy , semantics (computer science) , space (punctuation) , calculus (dental) , linguistics , computer science , artificial intelligence , verb , physics , multimodal logic , medicine , dentistry , quantum mechanics , description logic , programming language
Kripke (1980) hypothesizes a link between rigidity and scope: a singular term is rigid over a space S of possibilities just in case it is scopeless with respect to modals that quantify over S . Kripke's hypothesis works well when we consider the interaction of singular terms with metaphysical modals, but runs into trouble when we consider the interaction of singular terms with epistemic modals. After describing the trouble in detail, and considering one non‐solution to it, I develop a novel version of dynamic semantics that resolves the problem.