naa a22 4500 510789188 CHVBK 20180411083313.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11406-012-9388-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11406-012-9388-z Noonan Harold Department of Philosophy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK aut A Flaw in Kripke's Modal Argument? [Elektronische Daten] [Harold Noonan] The response to Kripke's modal argument I wish to propose appeals to the distinction between indicative descriptions, i.e., descriptions formed using indicative verb forms, and what I shall call subjunctive descriptions, descriptions formed using non-indicative verb forms used in subjunctive conditionals. The contrast is between ‘the person who is richer than anyone else in the world' and ‘the person who would have been richer than anyone else in the world'. The response to Kripke's modal argument is that indicative descriptions are always rigid designators and so do not contrast with proper names. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2012 Kripke nationallicence Rigid designators nationallicence Proper names nationallicence Modal argument nationallicence Philosophia Springer Netherlands 41/3(2013-09-01), 841-846 0048-3893 41:3<841 2013 41 11406 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-012-9388-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-012-9388-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Noonan Harold Department of Philosophy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Philosophia Springer Netherlands 41/3(2013-09-01), 841-846 0048-3893 41:3<841 2013 41 11406 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer