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Saul Kripke, The Prodigy
Saul Kripke is hailed as the greatest living philosopher in the analytic philosophy tradition. He has made major contributions to the fields of logic, philosophy of language, modality, and truth (Carneades). His brilliance over the course of his career shows how and why this has been the case.
Kripke was born in 1940 in Long Island, New York, and was the child of a rabbi and a Jewish children's book author. He revealed his intellectual talents very quickly from a young age. For example he had taught himself ancient Hebrew by the age of six. By the age of nine, it was said that he had read all the works of Shakespeare and had begun to explore the works of Descartes (Carneades). For a child not yet in adolescence, this is of course astonishing. In time, Kripke would show how quickly his mind worked. Indeed, the next demonstration of his talent was when, before graduating high school, he wrote an incredibly impressive academic paper on modal logic. This paper was so impressive in the academic community that he was actually invited to teach in the mathematics department at Harvard. However, he declined, stating his mother believed he should finish high school first. That is just a quick synopsis of the...…positions, suggesting that names can identify a person (the same person) across all possible worlds irrespective of description. For example, the Morning Star and the Evening Star are the same (Venus). However, in connection with this idea, he also introduced the idea of a posteriori necessary truths, which are facts true in all worlds that can only be learned through experience (Carneades).
In conclusion, Saul Kripke's work in the field of philosophy has helped to cement his status as the most influential living scholar in the field of modal logic today. He is widely recognized as a master logician and philosopher. His theories and interpretations raised the bar in these fields.
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