Questions on Kripke

- Outline Mill's view (as presented by Kripke)
- What, according to Kripke, is the real content of the statement 'Hesperus is Phosphorus'?
- What are the advantages of the Frege-Russell view over Mill's?
- How does Kripke show that 'being the teacher of Alexander the Great' cannot be the sense, or even part of the sense, of the name 'Aristotle'?
- What are the advantages of the 'cluster view' over Frege-Russell?
- Does Frege (as we interpreted him) hold the view that descriptions determine the sense of a proper name, or does he only claim that they determine its reference?
- What kind of view about sense and reference is the example of the standard meter in Paris supposed to illustrate?
- What are the metaphysical implications of the example of the standard meter?
* Why does Kripke say that 'the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter' is a rigid designator?
- Is it intelligible to say: 'Nothing narrated in the Bible about Moses is correct, but Moses existed?'
- Why can't the sense of a proper name NN be given by the description 'the bearer of the name "NN"'?

- What evidence do the Feynman and Einstein examples provide against the cluster theory?
- What's the point that the Godel example is supposed to illustrate?
- What is the role of baptism in the theory of reference?
- How does the Feynman example illustrate it?