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.
My nickname is Esta Bell.
If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.
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.
You can write 'little beast' if you want, but my name is David Ferrer.
The unnamed should not be mistaken for the nonexistent.
'Mahershala' is my nickname.
I was always called Payne or Payno.
Any man can be 62, but it takes a bus to be 62A.
You can call me whatever. Philly Cheese. Bubble Cheese. Whatever.
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.
I had a period of thinking that I would have been called 'Newt the McPherson,' as in 'Robert the Bruce.'
Race designation is a political designation.
Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
Names come and names go.
My name is not 'William Shatner.'
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.
You have to name it to claim it
Now I am here - now read me - give me a name.
Think of any name. I’ve been called it in these letters.
