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used as a mere synonym for "the culprit"; it meant, attributively or flaccidly,
just "whoever committed the crime." For that matter, probably any proper
name has occasional flaccid uses. Frege (1892/1952a) offers a famous example:
"Trieste is no Vienna," where "Vienna" functions not as the name of a city,
but as abbreviating a loose cluster of exciting cultural properties that Vienna
has. In the same tone, on an occasion well remembered by American voters,
1988 Vice-Presidential candidate Lloyd Bentsen told his rival Dan Quayle,
"Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy." But those are hardly standard uses of the
names "Vienna" and "Jack Kennedy."3
Kripke offers a further little intuitive test for telling whether a term is
rigid: try the term in the sentence frame, "N might not have been N." If we
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plug in, for N, a description like "the President of the United States in 1970,"
we obtain "The President of the United States in 1970 might not have been
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