Lexicon of Arguments

 

I 49/50
Ryle: the description decides whether a property is necessary or contingent! (Kripke: but not all properties are accidental, some are essential.)
Nature/Kripke: some properties are essential: e.g. 9 is an odd number.
Definition essential property: if we consider a property to be essential to an object, we usually mean that it would have applied to an object in any case in which it would have existed.
>Planets example, >necessary/Kripke, >necessary de re/Kripke.
I 79
The relevance of properties depends on theory (Vs sheaf theory).
>Relevance.
The biblical story does not provide any necessary properties of Moses, so he could have lived without accomplishing any of these things.
I 90f
Properties: "essential" properties are perhaps not the most important property. No theory distinguishes by relevance.
I 136f
I do not want to say that only the origin and substance are essential.
Properties: there could even be a substance that has all the identifying properties, and yet is not gold, e.g. fool’s gold.
I 138
Each property could turn out to be wrong, therefore it is not a bundle concept.
I 139f
General names like "cat" do not express any property.
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II 212
Kripke essential property/meaning/intention e.g. novel: it is not important whether the hero really was the Messiah, but it is important that the deeds apply to the intentioned hero. This has nothing to do with the principle of charity.
>Meaning (Intending)/Kripke, >Charity Principle.