That solution to Prior's puzzle.
Prior's puzzle is a puzzle about the substitution of certain putatively synonymous or coreferential expressions in sentences. Prior's puzzle is important, because a satisfactory solution to it should constitute a crucial part of an adequate semantic theory for both proposition-embedding expressions...
| Published in: | Philosophical Studies Vol. 179; no. 9; pp. 2765 - 2786 |
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Sep2022
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