Saul Kripke Quotes

Saul Kripke — American Philosopher born on November 13, 1940,

Saul Aaron Kripke is an American philosopher and logician. He is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York and emeritus professor at Princeton University. Since the 1960s Kripke has been a central figure in a number of fields related to mathematical logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, metaphysics, epistemology, and set theory. Much of his work remains unpublished or exists only as tape-recordings and privately circulated manuscripts. Kripke was the recipient of the 2001 Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy. A 2009 academic poll ranked Kripke among the top ten most important philosophers of the past 200 years... (wikipedia)

I just hate sitting and writing - I had to do that in school. Plus, I have terrible handwriting.

It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong.

For a sensation to be felt as pain is for it to be pain.

Any necessary truth, whether a priori or a posteriori, could not have turned out otherwise.

I wish I could have skipped college.