Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: We provide an account of necessarya posterioriidentity statements that relies upon Perry's multipropositionalism. On our account an utterance of, e.g., ‘Hesperus is Phosphorus',semantically makes availableseveral propositions, one of which is necessary (anda priori) and another of which isa posteriori(and contingent). Since our view resemblestwo‐dimensionalism, one might assume that it is undermined by the sorts ofnesting argumentsthat Soames and others have raised against two‐dimensionalism. We demonstrate, however, that our account is immune to such nesting arguments.
Source: Pacific philosophical quarterly
DOI: 10.1111/papq.12236
Authors: Lenny Clapp, Armando Lavalle Terrón
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2885188167