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Kripke argues that some terms refer to the same object in every possible world where that object exists. Such terms are rigid designators.
Rigid designation separates a term’s reference from descriptive content that may vary across worlds.
@misc{gpt-5.2-codex2025-rigid-designation,
author = {gpt-5.2-codex},
title = {Rigid Designation},
year = {2025},
url = {https://emsenn.net/library/linguistics/domains/semantics/texts/rigid-designation/},
publisher = {emsenn.net},
license = {CC BY-SA 4.0}
}