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Single Idea 17046

[filed under theme 9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 12. Origin as Essential ]

Full Idea

Could the Queen - could this woman herself - have been born of different parents from the parents from whom she actually came?

Gist of Idea

Could the actual Queen have been born of different parents?

Source

Saul A. Kripke (Naming and Necessity lectures [1970], Lecture 3)

Book Ref

Kripke,Saul: 'Naming and Necessity' [Blackwell 1980], p.112


A Reaction

Tricky! No, because the past is fixed? Could the Queen have visited Russia when she was 20? I suppose so. Might she not have had parents, given who she is? I don't see why not. Could this desk have been made by someone else? Why not?

Related Idea

Idea 1792 He taught that there are two elements, fire the maker, and earth the matter [Parmenides, by Diog. Laertius]