Open AccessSemantic Epistemology: A Brief Response to Devitt
Author(s) -
Édouard Machery
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
theoria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.2
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 2171-679X
pISSN - 0495-4548
DOI - 10.1387/theoria.6223
Subject(s) - epistemology , self reference , philosophy
In this article, I argue that philosophers' intuitions about reference are not more reliable than lay people's and that intuitions about the reference of proper names and uses of proper names provide equally good evidence for theories of reference