Proper names are rigid designators.

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

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

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

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