But many people may not know enough

But many people may not know enough about this theory to distinguish it from other related scientific claims. Instead, Kripke suggests, what we mean by a name is what some other person means by the name. Shifting his example to Gödel, Kripke notes, “I may then say, ‘Look, by “Gödel” I shall mean the man Joe thinks proved the incompleteness of arithmetic.’ Joe may then pass the thing over to Harry” (90).Kripke goes on to describe a “chain” of such references that may or may not actually “get back to the man by referring to such a chain in that way, borrowing the references one by one” (90)