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The only way to
make a picture into a theory is to take it overliterally, to treat it as if it were
a theory and see how it needs to be refined. Kripke does just that, though he
leaves the refinement to others.
Problems for the CausalHistorical Theory
The causalhistorical view's key notion is that of the passing on of reference
from one person to another. But not just any such transfer will do. First,
we must rule out the "naming after" phenomenon. My boyhood friend John
Lewis acquired a sheepdog, and named it "Napoleon" after the emperor;
he had the historical Napoleon explicitly in mind and wanted to name his
dog after that famous person. "Naming after" is a link in a causalhistorical
chain: it is only because the emperor was named "Napoleon" that John Lewis
named his dog that. But it is the wrong kind of link. To rule it out, Kripke
requires that "[w]hen the name is `passed from link to link', the receiver of
the name must . .
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