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==Essentialism== In ''[[Naming and Necessity]]'', Kripke argues that [[proper name]]s and certain [[natural kind]] terms—including biological [[Taxonomy (biology)|taxa]] and types of natural substances (most famously, "water" and "H<sub>2</sub>O") designate rigidly. He argues for a form of [[scientific essentialism]] not unlike Aristotelian essentialism. Essential properties are common to an object in all possible worlds, and so they pick out the same objects in all possible worlds - they rigidly designate.
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