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On Identity Statements: In Defense of a Sui Generis View
Disputatio 8 (43):269-293 (2016)
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Although Kripke’s œuvre has had a major impact on analytic philosophy and nearly every aspect of his studies has been thoroughly examined, this does not hold for his schmidentity argument, which, so far, has been widely neglected. To the extent to which it has been treated at all, it has been for the most part radically misunderstood. I hold that this argument, in its correctly reconstructed form, has general relevance for a treatment of Frege’s Puzzle and points towards a fundamental (...) |
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This book is about the idea that some true statements would have been true no matter how the world had turned out, while others could have been false. It develops and defends a version of the idea that we tell the difference between these two types of truths in part by reflecting on the meanings of words. It has often been thought that modal issues—issues about possibility and necessity—are related to issues about meaning. In this book, the author defends the (...) |
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Some propositions are not only true, but could not have been otherwise. This thesis is about modality and the philosophy of language. Its centrepiece is a new account of the conditions under which a proposition is necessarily true in the above sense. |