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This chapter talks about the contingent a priori and rigid designators. A rigid designator is a term that picks out the same thing in all possible worlds in which that thing exists. As a consequence of this, there is a possibility of knowing a priori contingent truths about the world. It states that if a truth is a contingent one, then it is made true by some actual state of affairs in the world that exists independently of language and linguistic conventions. It also suggests that the procedure for introducing a term as a rigid designator, which Saul Kripke describes, does not have the consequence claimed for it and does not yield the possibility of knowing a priori contingent truths.
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