Answer by David Gudeman for When is the proposition expressed by "I am here"...
It's not that there is doubt about the contingency of the proposition; it is that the proposition can be known to be true a priori. Some philosophers have argued that the way we can know that a...
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Why would there be any doubt about the contingency of the proposition expressed by the utterance of (1)?How can an agent be positioned somewhere, sometime in all possible worlds?In the instance that...
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I'm currently reading Kaplan's On The Logic of Demonstratives (1979). He considers the example(1) I am here now.and on page 84 he argues that(b) In almost (if not all) contexts, an utterance of (1)...
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