Lexicon of Arguments

 

Kripke I 141
Necessity/needed/Putnam: "cats are animals" is less necessary than "bachelors are unmarried".
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Putnam V 72
Metaphysically Necessary/Kripke: Putnam: it is "metaphysically necessary" that water is H₂0, but that is explained by earthly chemistry and earthly facts about speaker intentions regarding reference. When describing a hypothetical liquid which is not H₂0 and merely resembles water, one does not describe any possible worlds, in which H₂O is not water.
V 274
Metaphysically Necessary/heat/Kripke/Putnam: possible Worlds, where heat does not corresponds with molecular motion, are possible. Language: but then we say that there is a different mechanism that triggers heat sensation.
Identity/heat/molecular motion/Kripke: the identity is necessary, but not a priori. The statement is empirical, but necessary.
>Necessary a posteriori.
Molecular motion is an essential property of the temperature.
KripkeVsMoore: then equating goodness with utility maximization cannot only be contingently wrong.
KripkeVsNon-Cognitivism: from the fact that the words are not synonymous, one cannot conclude that the characteristics are not identical.
>Non-cognitivism, >Synonymy.
V 279
Pro Moore: Moore was right that our concepts of natural science are more neutral as opposed to ethical ones. VsMoore: but that does not mean that the good did not exist.