Reflection Property

Famous quotes containing the words reflection and/or property:

    Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.
    Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

    Let’s call something a rigid designator if in every possible world it designates the same object, a non-rigid or accidental designator if that is not the case. Of course we don’t require that the objects exist in all possible worlds.... When we think of a property as essential to an object we usually mean that it is true of that object in any case where it would have existed. A rigid designator of a necessary existent can be called strongly rigid.
    Saul Kripke (b. 1940)