Linguistic competence and Kripke's puzzle

Philosophia 28 (1-4):171-189 (2001)
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In "A Puzzle About Belief" (_Meaning and Use, A. Margalit (ed.), D. Reidel (1979), pp. 239-283), Saul Kripke argues that linguistic moves to all appearances normal in reporting the beliefs of others can be shown to generate paradox. In this paper, I argue that the supposed paradox is one in appearance only, and that the appearance rests on a covert vacillation in Kripke's paper between two conceptions of linguistic understanding, a weak, or 'minimal' one, and a 'strong' one. Only the weak conception allows Kripke to set up the example which allegedly generates the paradox; only the strong allows the actual generation of the paradox

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