Saul Kripke Quotes on Knowledge
Saul Kripke was an American philosopher and logician and one of the most consequential analytic philosophers of the second half of the twentieth century. This page collects quotes attributed to Saul Kripke on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Saul Kripke:
“A name is a rigid designator: it picks out the same object in every possible world in which that object exists.”
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Attributed to Saul Kripke:
“Identity statements between proper names, if true, are necessarily true.”
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Attributed to Saul Kripke:
“Necessity is a metaphysical, not an epistemological, notion.”
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Attributed to Saul Kripke:
“A statement can be necessary and yet known only a posteriori.”