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The 9 pages that link to Saul Kripke, each with the reason it gives.

• Analytic philosophyRelated: His modal arguments challenged influential assumptions about language and metaphysics.

• Ludwig WittgensteinRelated: Kripke’s interpretation of Wittgenstein’s rule-following discussion sparked a major debate.

• Modal logicRelated: His relational semantics gave modal systems a powerful model-theoretic interpretation.

• Possible worldsRelated: His semantics gave possible worlds their standard formal role in modal logic.

• Philosophy of languageRelated: His arguments challenged descriptivist accounts of proper names.

• A priori and a posterioriRelated: Kripke separated the a priori–a posteriori distinction from the necessary–contingent distinction.

• Hilary PutnamRelated: Kripke’s account of rigid designation developed alongside Putnam’s arguments about natural-kind terms.

• Kwame Anthony AppiahRelated: Appiah’s early philosophical work engaged with issues in analytic philosophy shaped by Kripke.

• Contemporary philosophyRelated: His account of rigid designation reshaped contemporary philosophy of language and metaphysics.