But Life turned the photographs down on the ground that they were too casual to give a proper picture of Einstein's importance.
Furthermore, I believe Kaplan incorrectly describes the relationship between proper names and photographs.
Kripke recently wrote to me, "The comparison of my views on the transmission of proper names with photographs is already emphasized by David Kaplan in his 'Quantifying In' (Synthese Vol. 19, No 1/2 (Dec., 1968), pp. 178-214).
[32] In this view, we can agree that there is a causal connection with the world — for both proper names and photographs — but the connection is meaningless without the beliefs — both true and false beliefs — that lead us back into the past.
They usually have a darkly coloured pattern near the centre of the flower, called the nectar guide, which orients the insect toward the proper pollinating location (see photograph).
Not to mention The Albert Hall 1966 Concert, the first to come in a proper sleeve with a photograph on the cover, the disc pressed on purple vinyl, half of it in real stereo (and not from the Royal Albert Hall, in fact, but from Manchester's Free Trade Hall – another of the little mysteries that fed the trade in Dylan contraband).
With both photographs and proper names, we can speak about associated beliefs and reference.
To what extent are photographs like proper names and vice versa?
Back in Chicago, McNally compiled the photographs into a booklet, with a little arrow in each photograph indicating the proper direction to take.
Jack is the runt of the litter who longs to be top dog, and the sheen of desperation on LaBeouf's face, as he hares off in a truck with a cargo of alcohol or poses for a photograph like a proper outlaw, tells us everything about the cravings of small-time crooks.
