Saul Kripke's rigid designator: "naming" is ROBUST to every possible counterfactual, alternative history. It solves the mind-body problem: person named X remains the same X under all biological perturbations, recombinations, all historical contingencies, alternative worlds. So a "name" is perfectly robust, the perfection is robustness.

Saul Kripke’s rigid designator: “naming” is ROBUST to every possible counterfactual, alternative history. It solves the mind-body problem: person named X remains the same X under all biological perturbations, recombinations, all historical contingencies, alternative worlds.
So a “name” is perfectly robust, the perfection is robustness.

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