How account for the intuitive difference between simply knowing a necessary proposition, and knowing that it is a necessary truth? In the paper it will be shown that two-dimensional semantics does not do the job in an adequate way. A solution is provided which is based on Hintikka’s worldlines. Assuming a slight extension of the syntax, modal epistemic logic can thus deal with classical puzzles like knowledge of identities.
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Rebuschi, M. (2016). Knowing Necessary Truths. In Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science (Vol. 38, pp. 269–282). Springer Science and Business Media B.V. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26506-3_10
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