Saul Kripke is an American philosopher and logician, renowned for his significant contributions to various areas of philosophy, particularly in the fields of modal logic, philosophy of language, and metaphysics. Born on November 13, 1940, Kripke is best known for his development of the concept of "possible worlds" in modal logic, which allows for the analysis of necessity and possibility in a rigorous way.
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