ABSTRACT
After discussing proper names of individuals Kripke extends his apparatus to a discussion of what he calls names of natural kinds. These are terms for natural phenomena, such as heat or light, terms for natural kinds of stuff, such as gold or water and terms for natural kinds of thing, such as the tiger. It is in this context that Kripke’s views come together with Putnam’s (1973, 1975), and his examples can be seen as illustrating some of the same points as Putnam’s.
