{"id":2604,"date":"2010-12-18T04:49:58","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T12:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"tag:google.com,2005:reader\/item\/735bbc82734aed4c"},"modified":"2010-12-21T17:26:43","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T01:26:43","slug":"saul-kripkes-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-bi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/saul-kripkes-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-bi\/","title":{"rendered":"Saul Kripke&#039;s rigid designator: &quot;naming&quot; 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 &quot;name&quot; is perfectly robust, the perfection is robustness."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saul Kripke&#8217;s rigid designator: &#8220;naming&#8221; 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. <br \/>So a &#8220;name&#8221; is perfectly robust, the perfection is robustness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saul Kripke&#8217;s rigid designator: &#8220;naming&#8221; 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 contingencie&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook","category-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2604"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2651,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions\/2651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}