人们根据自然对象对人的影响命名自然种类,这种命名没有给自然种类词项接下来的使用奠定良好的认识论基础。克里普克以命名礼解释自然种类的命名,但不能解释自然种类词项在自然科学探究中的使用。接受克里普克式自然种类词项严格性,则需要接受一种实在论。在解释的视域下,克里普克关于自然种类的语义解释为融合科学主义和人本主义展开了一个广阔的理论平台。
People name natural kinds with regard to certain natural matter' s effect to human beings. This kind of naming doesn' t leave a good epistemic foundation for the following usages of these terms. Kripke explains the naming of natural kinds with baptisms, but his explanation doesn' t fit for the using of natural kind terms in scientific studies. To Take Kripkean rigidity of natural kind terms, we must follow a kind of realism. Under the range of interpretation, Kripke' s works serves a theoretical platform in combining studies from Scientism and Humanism.