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Transworld Identity, Singular Propositions, and Picture-Thinking
In On Sense and Direct Reference. New York: McGraw-Hill (2007)
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This is a paper in which I argue that problems of transworld identity and the truth in-truth at distinction are motivated by unhelpful pictures we have in mind while doing metaphysics.Author's Profile
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