Alexander Pruss's Blog

Alice knows that her friend Bob has no pets and no experience with birds. While recommending Bob for a birdkeeping job at a zoo and having d...

I am starting to think that one can lie without asserting a proposition. Let’s say that a counterintelligence agent tells an enemy spy that...

Kripke famously argued that unicorns cannot exist. For “unicorn” would have to refer to a natural kind. But there are multiple non-actual na...

Sam and Francis each read a different newspaper article. Sam's article said that there was a newly produced element named "coperni...

Suppose the theory of bare particularism is wrong. It is plausible that if it's wrong, it's not that its central claims ar...

Consider the sentence (or quasi-sentence): The sky is blue or momeraths slithily toves oop outgrabe. It is tempting to say that this is...

To lie is to assert falsely, though what exactly it is to assert falsely is unclear. It probably doesn't mean to assert a fal...

is I will assume at first a fairly standard view of language, not my own weird view. The following two claims are very plausible: Whether a ...

This post is inspired by this discussion . Is the following sentence true? (1) If the borogoves were mimsy, then the borogoves were m...