Showing papers by "Douglas Walton published in 1977"
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TL;DR: In this article, the difference between existen-tial self-verifyingness and performative self verifyingness is discussed, and some permutations on these concepts are discussed.
Abstract: I think I am not alone in being troubled on whether existen-tial self-verifyingness and performative self-verifyingness are really two distinct concepts, or what the difference exactly between them is supposed to be as they are utilized by Hintikka in his celebrated analysis of Descartes' cogito argument. My attempts to classify and clarify some permutations on these concepts may therefore be of general interest, given the acknowledged importance of Hintikka's analysis.
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