Soames’s defense of Kripke’s modal argument against the wide-scope analysis and the rigidified description analysis is not successful,due to some mistakes: after supposing that a name ’n’ is equal with a description ’the G’ with a wide scope over a modality,or supposing a name ’n’ is defined to be synonymous with a rigidified description ’the G’,he still takes ’n’ and ’the G’ as having different modal scope,and thinks that people can have different beliefs about the object separately designated by ’n’ and by ’the G’.This kind of situation cannot happen,therefore,Soames’s defense of the modal argument fails.