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Understanding Assertion
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Abstract
In his ground breaking 1978 article, ‘‘Assertion,’’ Robert Stalnaker presents an elegant model of discourse designed to solve philosophical problems arising, in part, from his identification of propositions with functions from possible worldstates to truth values, and his restriction of the epistemically possible to the metaphysically possible. Among these problems are those posed by Kripkean examples of the necessary aposteriori. Being necessary, all such examples are seen by Stalnaker as semantically expressing the same trivial, universally known, apriori truth.
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Abstract
In his ground breaking 1978 article, ‘‘Assertion,’’ Robert Stalnaker presents an elegant model of discourse designed to solve philosophical problems arising, in part, from his identification of propositions with functions from possible worldstates to truth values, and his restriction of the epistemically possible to the metaphysically possible.
Among these problems are those posed by Kripkean examples of the necessary aposteriori.
Being necessary, all such examples are seen by Stalnaker as semantically expressing the same trivial, universally known, apriori truth.
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