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You discover a teenage paper that proves you could've been right
A teenage prodigy in Omaha writes a paper that changes how names work - what would you do if you understood things the world had no category for yet?
You discover a teenage paper that proves you could've been right
In this episode, we follow the record of a seventeen-year-old who wrote a completeness theorem for modal logic and the lectures that later challenged decades of linguistic theory. We trace the choices, institutions, and moments that shaped Saul Kripke's early work and ask what it means to name someone and to think about possibility. What would you have done with that early clarity?…
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