ARE NECESSARY IDENTITIES EVER DISBELIEVED?
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Necessary identity, Beliefs, Indexicals, Proper names, Direct Reference TheoryResumo
The purpose of this paper is to bring out, by means of a simple thought experiment involving demonstratives, a discrepancy between what is expressed and what is believed (which contradicts the Theory of Direct Reference), and to consider some consequences of this – most notably, whether we might hold, for example, that the ancients never believed that Hesperus is not Phosphorus.
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