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Saul Kripke
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Saul Kripke was an American logician and philosopher who from the 1960s was one of the most powerful and influential thinkers in contemporary analytic (Anglophone) philosophy. Kripke began his important work on the semantics of modal logic (the logic of modal notions such as necessity and