Descriptive Reference Fixing and Epistemic Privileges

Donnellan (1977) argues for a radical limitation of Kripke’s (1980) thesis concerning the possibility of contingent truths knowable a priori as a result of descriptive reference fixing for names. According to the former, in the absence of some form of acquaintance between the speaker and the object...

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Main Author: Marco Ruffino
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal da Paraíba 2021-07-01
Series:Aufklärung
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Online Access:https://periodicos.ufpb.br/ojs2/index.php/arf/article/view/60025