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PROVIDING STABILITY TO OUR WORLD. IDENTITY AND TRANSFERENCE: GEACH AND QUINE (pages 37-56)

Olga RAMÍREZ ABSTRACT: The problem of identity is central to epistemic transference. However, relative identity appears to be the only way to work out an epistemic useful notion of identity. Relative identity, on its part, is either parasitic on strict identity or not identity at all. If, on the contrary, we ought for a strict concept of identity capable of …

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Quine and First-Person Authority (pages 141-161)

Ali Hossein KHANI ABSTRACT: Blackburn and Searle have argued that Quine’s thesis of the indeterminacy of translation results in a denial of the sort of first-person authority that we commonly concede we have over our mental and semantical content. For, the indeterminacy thesis implies that there is no determinate meaning to know at all. And, according to Quine, the indeterminacy …

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