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Augustine and the KK Principle

Published:2024-02-26 Issue:1 Volume:27 Page:79-92
ISSN:2666-4283
Container-title:History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis
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Short-container-title:Hist. Philos. Log. Anal.

Author:

Weiss Yale¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. The Saul Kripke Center, The CUNY Graduate Center https://dx.doi.org/14772

Abstract

Abstract In On the Trinity 15.12.21, Augustine appears to endorse the KK principle (that if one knows that

, then one knows that one knows that

) in the course of giving an argument – the Multiplicity Argument – against the Academic skeptics. Gareth Matthews has disputed Augustine’s endorsement of the KK principle and presented a different reading of the Multiplicity Argument. In this note, I show that Matthews’s construal of the Multiplicity Argument is both interpretively and technically defective and defend the attribution of some form of the KK principle to Augustine.

Publisher

Brill Deutschland GmbH

Link

https://www.mentis.de/downloadpdf/journals/hpla/27/1/article-p79_3.xml

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