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13973 | A key achievement of Kripke is showing that important modalities are not linguistic in source [Soames] |
Full Idea: None of Kripke's many achievements is more important than his breaking the spell of the linguistic as the source of philosophically important modalities. | |
From: Scott Soames (Significance of the Kripkean Nec A Posteriori [2006], p.186) | |
A reaction: Put like that, Kripke may have had the single most important thought of modern times. I take good philosophy to be exactly the same as good scientific theorising, in that it all arises out of the nature of reality (and I include logic in that). |