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Wednesday, 30 August 2017

Kipper's Bombshell

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In a recent post (and an article I am working on), I arrived at the view that if a proposition can be known to be necessary (i.e. necessari...
Wednesday, 23 August 2017

Notes on Counterfactual Scenario Descriptions, Sources of Modal Error (or Uncertainty), and Deep Puzzles of Modality

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One interesting thing about my account of subjunctive necessity is the way it separates two kinds of things that we could be wrong or confu...
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Friday, 18 August 2017

Scholarly Attention for the First Ever Sprachlogik Post!

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It recently came to my attention that the first ever post here, from back in 2011, is the subject of a journal article by Matheus Silva, a...
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Tuesday, 1 August 2017

An Adventure in Linking Necessity to Apriority

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[UPDATE: These ideas have led to a paper , 'Linking Necessity to Apriority', in Acta Analytica .] There is an important link betwe...
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Saturday, 8 July 2017

An Attempt to Diagnose the Disagreement over the Relational Explanation of Identity

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Here is what I have to say in response to the schmidentity challenge as posed to the sui generis view of identity statements . (See also the...
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Saturday, 10 June 2017

The Schmidentity Challenge (to the Sui Generis View of Identity Statements)

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In my (2016) I defended the idea that identity statements are sui generis . More precisely, I defended the idea that identity statements in...
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Saturday, 6 May 2017

The Pre-Kripkean Puzzles are Back

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Yes, but does Nature have no say at all here?! Yes. It is just that she makes herself heard in a different way. Wittgenstein (MS 137). ...
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