ABSTRACT


"On an argument for epistemic non-factualism"

Mario Gomez-Torrente
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México


I will explore an argument for epistemic non-factualism, the thesis that epistemic attributions do not have truth conditions. The argument is analogous to but independent of Kripke's Wittgenstein's argument for non-factualism about rule-following attributions. The epistemic argument and a "skeptical solution" to it will be conjectured to provide interpretative clues to some neglected aspects of Wittgenstein's On Certainty.

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