Against Kripke’s solution to the problem of negative existentials

Analysis 79 (3):411-415 (2019)
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In this paper, I try to show that Kripke’s proposed solution to the problem of negative existentials fails. I try to show that Kripke’s proposal fails because it entails that anybody who has good reasons to believe that there are no propositions has also good reasons to believe that he or she does not exist. However, there were philosophers who had good reasons to believe that there are no propositions even though they didn’t have good reasons to believe that they do not exist. I conclude that Kripke’s proposed solution to the problem of negative existentials fails.

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