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ON DEFENCE OF KRIPKE: NECESSARY A POSTERIORI PROPOSITION (pages 33-38)

Seyyed Mohammad Ali HODJATI ABSTRACT: One of Kripke’s innovations concerning the philosophy of language is the doctrine that the truth of some metaphysically necessary propositions is only known a posteriori. The typical example he gives is the identity statement consists of two different proper names that refer to the same referent, like “Hesperus = Phosphorus”. By metaphysically necessary he means …

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