Ideas from 'Significance of the Kripkean Nec A Posteriori' by Scott Soames [2006], by Theme Structure

[found in 'Philosophical Essays 2:Significance of Language' by Soames,Scott [Princeton 2009,978-0-691-13683-7]].

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1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 5. Modern Philosophy / c. Modern philosophy mid-period

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Analytic philosophy loved the necessary a priori analytic, linguistic modality, and rigour

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 5. Linguistic Analysis

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If philosophy is analysis of meaning, available to all competent speakers, what's left for philosophers?

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / a. Essence as necessary properties

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Kripkean essential properties and relations are necessary, in all genuinely possible worlds

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 3. Necessity by Convention

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A key achievement of Kripke is showing that important modalities are not linguistic in source

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 2. Nature of Possible Worlds / a. Nature of possible worlds

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Kripkean possible worlds are abstract maximal states in which the real world could have been

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 10. Two-Dimensional Semantics

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Two-dimensionalism reinstates descriptivism, and reconnects necessity and apriority to analyticity