Naming and Necessity, by Saul A. Kripke.#

This books discusses the meaning of names and how understanding this is influenced by counter-factual reasoning. It is less `exciting' than it would be if I had previously had an opinion on this matter. Given that I did not, I had no horse in the race, so to speak.#

A basic part of the argument is that speakers may not know the "properties" of the referent of the name, nor may the properties they do know be correct. Further, in these cases the properties may be used to fix a reference, rather than create a synonym.#