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.
If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.
My nickname is Esta Bell.
Truth is the right designation of God.
I don't have a nickname and I'm not looking for one.
'Shaggy' was a nickname before it was ever a stage name. I have no problem with it.
For the present you can just call me the Kingfish.
The unnamed should not be mistaken for the nonexistent.
You can write 'little beast' if you want, but my name is David Ferrer.
I was always called Payne or Payno.
Any man can be 62, but it takes a bus to be 62A.
'Mahershala' is my nickname.
One of the fellows called me 'Cyclone' but finally shortened it to 'Cy' and its been that ever since.
If you wish, you may call me Rand Sedai.
You can call me whatever. Philly Cheese. Bubble Cheese. Whatever.
Race designation is a political designation.
Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
I had a period of thinking that I would have been called 'Newt the McPherson,' as in 'Robert the Bruce.'
My name is not 'William Shatner.'
Names come and names go.
Everybody calls me Big Man.
In this world one must have a name; it prevents confusion, even when it does not establish identity. Some, though, are known by numbers, which also seem inadequate distinctions.
Now I am here - now read me - give me a name.
You have to name it to claim it
I would like to be refered to as 'The Big Aristotle'.
