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    It is not the case that Kripke's modal arguments show that proper names are rigid designators tracking objects across possible worlds without descriptive sense.

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    • 1.Names appear to acquire reference through historical-causal chains involving descriptions, undermining the pure rigidity picture.
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    • 2.Distinguishing rigid designation from descriptive content may be unclear: speaker intentions always involve some conceptual criteria.
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    • 3.Cross-world identity of objects itself requires criteria of identity—names alone don't settle which counterpart is 'the same' object.
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    • 1.The intuition that 'Aristotle' refers to the same person across possible worlds independent of his properties supports rigid designation.
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    • 2.Kripke's modal arguments show descriptive theories fail: the same description picks different objects in different possible worlds.
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    • 3.Scientific identities (water = H2O) require rigid designators to express necessary truths about what things fundamentally are.
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