The Standard Metre in Paris.
In Philosophical Investigations, Wittgenstein argues that we can neither say of the standard One Metre in Paris that it is a single metred length, nor that it is not. Kripke's reply to the puzzle is well known: the sentence expressing the assertion that the standard One Metre is one metre in length...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Investigations Vol. 31; no. 4; pp. 318 - 340 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Oct2008
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