Naming and Necessity

philosophy book by Saul Kripke
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Naming and Necessity

Summary

Naming and Necessity is a written work[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of written_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (224 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Naming and Necessity authored Saul Kripke[3].
  • Naming and Necessity's image is recorded as Naming and Necessity.jpg[4].
  • Naming and Necessity's instance of is recorded as written work[5].
  • Naming and Necessity's publisher is recorded as Harvard University Press[6].
  • Naming and Necessity's publisher is recorded as Wiley-Blackwell[7].
  • Naming and Necessity's genre is recorded as philosophy[8].
  • Naming and Necessity's language of work or name is recorded as English[9].
  • Naming and Necessity's country of origin is recorded as United States[10].
  • Naming and Necessity's publication date is recorded as +1980-01-01T00:00:00Z[11].
  • Naming and Necessity's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02q0pt_[12].
  • Naming and Necessity's Open Library ID is recorded as OL6447860W[13].
  • Naming and Necessity's has edition or translation is recorded as Naming and Necessity[14].
  • Naming and Necessity's main subject is recorded as philosophy[15].
  • Naming and Necessity's LibraryThing work ID is recorded as 25195[16].
  • Naming and Necessity's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Naming-and-Necessity[17].
  • Naming and Necessity's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Naming and Necessity'}[18].
  • Naming and Necessity's OCLC work ID is recorded as 521782[19].
  • Naming and Necessity's Namuwiki ID is recorded as 이름과 필연[20].

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Designation and Status

Naming and Necessity's instance of is recorded as written work[5].

Why It Matters

Naming and Necessity ranks in the top 5% of written_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (224 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
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  6. [8] . journals.cambridge.org. journals.cambridge.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  18. [20] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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