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    It is not the case that Kripke's modal argument establishes that proper names are rigid designators that track the same individual across all possible worlds, independent of any descriptive sense.

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    • 1.Names exhibit context-sensitivity and can shift referents based on speaker intentions, challenging pure rigidity across all scenarios.
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    • 2.Some descriptive content (e.g., 'water' as H2O) seems constitutive to reference, not merely contingent accompaniments to names.
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    • 3.Kripke's modal intuitions rely on antecedent assumptions about identity that haven't been independently justified without circularity.
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    • 1.Names like 'Aristotle' refer to the same person in counterfactuals even if descriptions (tutor of Alexander) differ across worlds.
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    • 2.Descriptivism fails because the object satisfying a description could have been different; rigid designation explains this intuition.
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    • 3.The causal-historical chain grounding reference operates independently of whether speakers know identifying descriptions.
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