Let's make this birthday one to remember.

84 years old (Born on November 13, 1940)

Happy Birthday, Saul Kripke! If possible worlds exist, we bet your birthday cake tastes incredible in every single one of them. You’ve shown philosophers everywhere that logic can be both rigorous and surprisingly cool—making modal logic fashionable before anyone knew it could even wear sunglasses.

From "Naming and Necessity" to your groundbreaking work on truth theories, you gave us new reasons—and ways—to rethink language itself. The analytic world owes so much clarity (and occasional confusion!) to your brilliant debates; thanks for making philosophy nerdy-cool long before hipsters took notice.

Here's hoping today is celebrated necessarily rather than contingently. Keep proving reality wrong!