SAUL KRIPKE VERSUS THE HOLOCAUST?
Christopher Richard Wade Dettling (2017)
Adolf Hitler might not have been a mass murderer, according to Saul Kripke, the famous Harvard logician. At least this is the verdict of Kripke’s theory of language and logic, namely his doctrine of possible worlds and rigid designators:
“Aristotle’s most important properties consist in his philosophical work, and Hitler’s in his murderous political role; both, as I have said, might have lacked these properties altogether. Surely there was no logical fate hanging over either Aristotle or Hitler which made it in any sense inevitable that they should have possessed the properties we regard as important to them; they could have had careers completely different from their actual ones … I say that a designator is rigid, and designates the same thing in all possible worlds.”¹
If Adolf Hitler might not have been evil, then the Holocaust, according to the theories of Saul Kripke, might never have happened?
“When I hear the name ‘Hitler,’ I do feel it’s sort of analytic that the man was evil. But really, probably not. Hitler might have spent all his days in quiet in Linz.”²
But Hitler was a mass murderer and no amount of Kripkean sophistry (rigid designators) will ever erase the fact: The Holocaust is an inescapable lesson of exact historiography and world history, and neither Saul Kripke nor his possible worlds and rigid designators will ever change the logical, linguistic and historical fact.
Yet, according to Saul Kripke, talk about possibilities, in accordance with rigid designators, will get one from A to B in logic and linguistics, and also get one wherever else one wants to go (especially in American politics and economics). Tomorrow, according to Kripkean logic, it will undoubtedly (rigidly) be the case that today I might not have eaten my breakfast, — the breakfast that I just (rigidly) ate. Obviously exact historiography and world history are beyond the realm of Kripkean theory (not to mention traditional morality), unless we prefer to replace historical truth and reality with Kripkean revisionist (sophistical) historiography:
“Hitler might have spent all his days in quiet in Linz … I say that a designator is rigid [transcendental, i.e., certain and incorrigible], and designates the same thing in all possible worlds.”³
Exact historiography and world history tell an altogether different tale:
“[Adolf Hitler] was one of the most evil men in world history.”⁴
The question therefore quite naturally arises: Is Saul Kripke, like William Alexander Jenks, famous for his great works of historical and biographical erudition?
The correct answer to this last question brings in train another consideration: The rational distinction between exact and inexact historiography in the realm of world history is not divorced from the science of logic and linguistics. Certainly it is not the case the realm of ultimate logical and linguistic reality is unintelligible and that something unknowable exists:
“The ultimate ground of logic is the realm of truth without veil, the system of pure reason and the world of pure thought.”⁵
Saul Kripke is a famous American Sophist (Kantian), like Richard Rorty, Noam Chomsky and Willard Van Orman Quine, and one of the most influential peddlers of modern European irrationalism in America during the last half of the 20th century.
ENDNOTES
1. Saul Aron Kripke, “Naming and Necessity: Lecture I, 20 January 1970,” Semantics of Natural Language (Synthese Library), № 40, Donald Davidson and Gilbert Harman, editors, Dordrecht, Reidel Publishing Company, 1972, 253–355; 289.
2. Kripke, Ibidem, 288.
3. Kripke, Ibidem, 288–289.
4. William Alexander Jenks, “Adolf Hitler,” World Book Encyclopedia, vol. 9, Chicago, 1971, 236. See: W.A. Jenks, Vienna and the Young Hitler, New York, 1960.
5. Georg Wilhem Friedrich Hegel, “Einleitung,” Wissenschaft der Logik: Die objective Logik, erster Band, Nürnberg, 1812, xiii.
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