Contingent A Priori Truths as Original Declarations. Some Comments on Marco Ruffino
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22329271 |
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| Authors | Eleonora Orlando (0000-0002-0153-6558, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 170 |
| Pages | 163-176 |
| Publication date | 2025-09-05 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-1503 • E-ISSN: 1870-4905 |
| Publisher | Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (PUBLISHER • MX) |
| DOI | 10.22201/iifs.18704905e.2025.1705 |
| OpenAlex | W4414121403 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
In his book Contingent A Priori Truths, Marco Ruffino proposes to understand Kripke’s examples of the contingent a priori in terms of utterances with a declarative illocutionary force. I think that Marco’s approach is very original and insightful, and he provides us with many detailed and thoughtful considerations in its support. Although I agree with the general picture, there are some aspects that remain a bit obscure to me, which will be the focus of this commentary, namely, the nature of the truth-makers of the allegedly (contingently) a priori true original declarations, and the transmission of a priori knowledge from baptizers to later uses
A priori and a posteriori · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
| Highly cited | No |
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