{"product_id":"naming-and-necessity-saul-kripke-first-american-edition","title":"Naming and Necessity, Saul Kripke. First American Edition.","description":"\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eNaming and Necessity, Saul A. Kripke\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eFirst American edition in book form, first printing, of Kripke's landmark work in metaphysics and the philosophy of language, developed from his 1970 Princeton lectures. Its arguments about naming, reference, and necessity reshaped debates over how language connects with the world. Later philosophers of artificial intelligence have drawn explicitly on its account of reference to investigate how machine-learning systems acquire meaningful representations.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eCambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1980. With a new preface by the author. Publisher's original tan cloth, spine lettered in gilt on green panels, in the original printed dust jacket; 172 pp. Near fine, binding tight and sturdy, internally clean, with light scattered foxing to the edges of the text block. Very good jacket showing minimal shelf wear and a few scattered stains, protected in archival mylar.\u003c\/h4\u003e","brand":"The Rare Book Sleuth","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50769313366191,"sku":null,"price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0515\/8846\/4815\/files\/IMG_1696.png?v=1793111660","url":"https:\/\/rarebooksleuth.com\/products\/naming-and-necessity-saul-kripke-first-american-edition","provider":"The Rare Book Sleuth","version":"1.0","type":"link"}